Hornidge / Antweiler Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge

Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-1959-5
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Global Studies

Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected.

But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina

Antweiler, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tropische Landwirtschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Antweiler, Christoph
Christoph Antweiler (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Südostasienwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn. Seine theoretischen Forschungsschwerpunkte sind soziokulturelle Evolution, Kultur-Universalien und lokales Wissen. Seine regionalen Forschungsthemen sind Kognition, Migration und Ethnizität in Indonesien.

Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Dr.) is a sociologist and currently Senior Researcher at the Center of Development Research, Bonn University, Germany.
Christoph Antweiler (Prof. Dr.) is an anthropologist and head of the Southeast Asia Department at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University, Germany.