Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge write by Anna-Katharina Hornidge. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.
"Because Your Environment is Looking After You"
"Because Your Environment is Looking After You" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Because Your Environment is Looking After You" write by Diamir de Scally. This book was released on 2019. "Because Your Environment is Looking After You" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pacific Island countries, like the Cook Islands, are often considered to be extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Changes in the frequency and intensity of climate-related hazards is expected to be one of many anticipated impacts of climate change in the Pacific Island region, having substantial implications for both climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts. Considerable literature highlights that local and traditional knowledge can play an important role in CCA and DRR, particularly in small island countries where vulnerability is unique and a long history of adapting to environmental change exists. However, there is little understanding on how to practically integrate and apply local knowledge in CCA, particularly in the Cook Islands. Through a comparative study between a core and periphery island, the purpose of this research was to investigate the role of local knowledge in adaptation to climate-related hazards in the Cook Islands. By employing qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews (n=34) with key informants and local participants, this research aimed to investigate the local adaptation strategies of Cook Islands communities to climate-related hazards on Rarotonga and Mitiaro, explore the variability in knowledge between a core (Rarotonga) and periphery (Mitiaro) island, understand the extent to which locals and government officials feel local knowledge is being appropriately integrated into adaptation policies, and determine some of the challenges to incorporating local knowledge into adaptation policy. Findings reveal that while local participants had considerable knowledge on environmental changes and coping and adaptation strategies for climate-related hazards, this knowledge was often in the context of multiple stressors. Additionally, interviewees perceived a large variability in knowledge on local coping and adaptation strategies and the impacts of climate change between Rarotonga and the outer islands. While key informants often recognized the important role of local knowledge in CCA, there has been an emphasis on recording local knowledge and less focus on integrating it into policy. Lastly, many challenges to integrating local knowledge into CCA policy were identified including development pressure, out-migration, a lack of understanding of local knowledge, religious influence, and uncertainty over the future use of local knowledge. This study offers insight on the role of local knowledge in CCA for other small island countries facing similar challenges.
Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge
Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge write by Peter Meusburger. This book was released on 2015-10-28. Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. It examines educational attainment of ethnic minorities, race and politics in educational systems, and the problem of losing indigenous knowledge. It comprises a broad range of case studies about specifics of local knowledge from several regions of the world, reflecting the interdependence of norms, tradition, ethnic and cultural identities, and knowledge. The contributors explore gaps between knowledge and agency, address questions of the social distribution of knowledge, consider its relation to communal activities, and inquire into the relation and intersection of knowledge assemblages at local, national, and global scales. The book highlights the relevance of local and indigenous knowledge and discusses implications for educational and developmental politics. It provides ideas and a cross-disciplinary scientific background for scholars, students, and professionals including NGO activists, and policy-makers.
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate write by Paul Sillitoe. This book was released on 2021-10-15. The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective.
Japan's 'Lost Decade'
Japan's 'Lost Decade' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan's 'Lost Decade' write by W. Miles Fletcher III. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Japan's 'Lost Decade' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding the 'lost decade' of the 1990s is central to explaining Japan today. Following a period of record high growth, the chronic downturn after 1990 raised fundamental questions about the course of the world's third largest economy. This crisis also presented Japan with the opportunity for transformative change. Changes have followed, some of them less than might be expected, and some of them far more sweeping than is generally realized. This volume presents a wide range of international perspectives on post-bubble Japan, exploring the effects of the long downturn on the views of the Japanese business community, management practices, and national policies. To what degree has Japan's traumatic experience prompted basic reforms in terms of legal changes, corporate governance, business strategy, and the longterm national vision for the economy? This book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
