Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next decade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous efforts by environmentalists and resource managers to encourage conservation. Conflicts over water and environmental degradation from the overuse of resources are intensifying. Water is not merely a physical resource: in every cultural context...
Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world...
- Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways?
With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally...
- What makes people care about the environment?
- Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways?
- Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways?
With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally...
- What makes people care about the environment?
- Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways?
What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.
Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged field of study that seeks to understand human social behavior. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of activities: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums,...
What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these q...
What is a lighthouse? What does it do, and how? What does a lighthouse mean symbolically? And what happens when we examine such questions from different disciplinary perspectives? Can sharing these perspectives through an interdisciplinary conversation 'enlighten' our thinking? This volume demonstrates the capacity of interdisciplinarity to transform the way we think. It provides both a comprehensive vision of what diverse disciplinary approaches bring to the topic itself, as well as some insights into how such exchanges act upon each disciplinary perspective. Bringing together a wide range...
What is a lighthouse? What does it do, and how? What does a lighthouse mean symbolically? And what happens when we examine such questions from differe...
