Beautiful Floods: Environmental Knowledge and Agrarian Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

ISBN-13: 9783643901958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Judith Ehlert

Opis

Floods are generally perceived as natural hazards. This book, in contrast, portrays the 'beautiful floods' of the Mekong Delta, which annually constitute a substantial resource for people's rural livelihoods. With a focus on floods, the author employs a 'lifeworlds' analysis to investigate dynamics of environmental and livelihood knowledge among farming and fishing communities and demonstrates that rapid agrarian change has both positive and negative impacts. /ueberdenautorJudith Ehlert is a sociologist and senior researcher at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (Germany). She is a specialist in Southeast Asia and is currently working on the political ecology of food and agriculture.