Modern crises and traditional strategies : local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia
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Modern crises and traditional strategies : local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia
(Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, v. 6)
Berghahn Books, 2007
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"Volume arises from a Wenner Gren-sponsored symposium that took place at the Ninth International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE), held at the University of Kent at Canterbury in June 2004"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Nino), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.
Table of Contents
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Preface
List of Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction
Roy Ellen
Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Nino, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo
Rajindra K. Puri
Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization
Rini Soemarwoto
Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java
Johan Iskandar
Chaptert 5. Innovation, 'Hybrid' Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten
Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen
Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980-2003
Hermien L. Soselisa
Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi
Simon Platten
Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan
Dario Novellino
Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu: a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor
Laura S. Metzner Yoder
Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java
Michael R. Dove
Index
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