Coping with Changing Environments: Social Dimensions of Endangered Ecosystems in the Developing World

ISBN-13: 9781138611122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 303 str.

Beate Lohnert; Helmut Geist

Opis

First published in 1999. The book offers a source of information and theoretical guidelines for the newly evolving scientific community of Global Change Research; including teachers, politicians and anyone involved in social and environmental policy and planning.

Spis treści

1. Endangered Ecosystems and Coping Strategies Towards a Conceptualization of Environmental Change in the Developing World Beate Lohnert and Helmut Geist  2. Coping with Vulnerability and Unsustainability, The Case of Nepalese Upland Farmers Hans-Georg Bohle  3. Hydropower, Rice Farmers and the State, The Case of Deforestation in Laos Thomas Krings  4. Debating Vulnerability, Environment and Housing, The Case of Rural-Urban Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa Beate Lohnert  5. Soil Mining and Societal Responses, The Case of Tabaco in Eastern Miombo Highlands Helmut Geist  6. Changes of Land Use and Institutions in Natural Resource Management, The Case of the Tanzanian Maasailand Sven Schade  7. Drought Hazards and Threatened Livelihoods, Environmental Perceptions in Botswana Fred Kruger  8. Enviromental Conversation, Land Tenure and Migration, The Case of the Atlantic Rainforest in Southeast Brazil Florian Duckmann  9. Why Herd Animals Die, Environmental Perception and Cultural Risk Management in the Andes Barbara Gobel  10. Risks and Coping Strategies of a Vulnerable Group in the Dominican Dry Forest, The Case of Charcoal Burners in Chalona Veronika Ulbert  11. Actors, Structures and Environments, A Comparative and Transdisciplinary View on Regional Case Studies pf Global Environment Change Gerhard Petschel-Held, Matthais K.B Ludeke and Fritz Reusswig

O autorze

Beate Lohnert, Helmut Geist