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Modern crises and traditional strategies : local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia / edited by Roy Ellen

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New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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Ellen, R. F., 1947- and International Congress of Ethnobiology (9th : 2004 : Canterbury, England)
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; List of Contributors <a href="/downloads/intros/EllenModern_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" Chapter 1. Introduction; Roy Ellen Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Niño, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo; Rajindra K. Puri Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization; Rini Soemarwoto Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java; Johan Iskandar Chaptert 5. Innovation, 'Hybrid' Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten; Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980-2003; Hermien L. Soselisa Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi; Simon Platten Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan; Dario Novellino Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu : a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor; Laura S. Metzner Yoder Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java; Michael R. Dove Index
Summary
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing enviro.
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9780857452832 (electronic bk.)
0857452835 (electronic bk.)
1306690218 (electronic bk.)
9781306690218 (electronic bk.)
9780857451453
0857451456
Note
"Volume arises from a Wenner Gren-sponsored symposium that took place at the Ninth International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE), held at the University of Kent at Canterbury in June 2004"--Preface
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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