Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia - 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 Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia write by . This book was released on 2013-07-15. Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since in the current global environmental and climate crisis East Asia will play a major role in negotiating solutions, it is vital to understand East Asian cultural variations in approaching and solving environmental challenges in the past, present, and future. The interdisciplinary volume Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, explores how cultural patterns and ideas have shaped a specific understanding of nature, how local and regional cultures develop(ed) coping strategies to adapt to environmental and climatic changes in the past and in the present and how various institutions and representatives might introduce their ideas and agendas in future environmental and climate policies on national levels and in international negotiating systems.
Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia - 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 Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia write by Karl Hutterer. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.
Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies
Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies - 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 Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies write by Merviö, Mika Markus. This book was released on 2019-11-15. Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. East Asian societies continue to react to developments occurring in the Western part of the world as well as influence development elsewhere due to the global reach of East Asian economies and the increased political weight of East Asian societies. These systems have distinctive features often connected with local social and cultural traditions. However, these traditions are constantly being reinterpreted, and the changing meanings attached to them must be taken into account. Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies is an essential research book that explores various social, environmental, and cultural issues challenging modern East Asian cultures and their implications on society. Featuring a wide range of topics such as local identity, social risk, and government policy, this book is ideal for researchers, policymakers, sociologists, managers, anthropologists, politicians, diplomats, academicians, and students.
Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing
Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing - 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 Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing write by Xinmin Liu. This book was released on 2021-10-28. Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cinema), food studies, critical animal studies, biotechnology, and the material sciences.
Asian Perceptions of Nature
Asian Perceptions of Nature - 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 Asian Perceptions of Nature write by Ole Bruun. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Asian Perceptions of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.
