Natural Resources and People: Conceptual Issues in Interdisciplinary Research

ISBN-13: 9780367008376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str.

Dahlberg, Kenneth A.

Opis

The authors of this book provide an up-to-date assessment of research on human interactions with natural resource systems. Following an evaluation of long-term trends and the political and institutional settings, they assess the strengths and weaknesses of approaches designed to lead to a more holistic and interdisciplinary understanding. The social sciences, impact and risk assessment, and systems theory are considered in detail. The book concludes with a review of the limitations and barriers posed by disciplinary specialization and institutional fragmentation. It outlines the new approaches that will be necessary in order to better integrate concepts and data. Throughout the book, the authors pay attention to the interaction between theory and practice by including case studies and detailed examples involving specific natural resource systems.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Historical and Institutional Trends and Influences -- The Changing Nature of Natural Resources -- Societal Contraints to Fisheries Management: A Peruvian Case Study -- Disciplinary Approaches -- Geographical Approaches to Environmental Change: Assessing Human Impacts on Global Resources -- Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Human Impacts -- Toward a Rural Sociology of Global Resources: Social Structure, Ecology, and Latin American Agricultural Development -- Resources and People: An Economic Perspective -- Multidisciplinary Problem-Oriented Approaches -- Range Management—Attempts to Build a Multidisciplinary Profession -- Desertification: Anatomy of a Complex Environmental Process -- Impact Ecology: An Assessment Framework for Resource Development and Management -- Systems Approaches -- Systems Analysis and the World Food System -- Ecosystems and Natural Resource Management -- Problems, Needs, and Prospects -- The Idea of Disaster in a Technocratic Age and Natural Hazards Research -- Summary and Critique: Interdisciplinary Research on People-Resources Relations -- Final Thoughts on Human Impacts on Global Resources