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  • Water Powers

    Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific

    de Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Sonja Åman, Barbara R. Ambros, Darmanto Darmanto, Susan M. Darlington0, Georgina Drew1, Kathryn Dyt2, Fynn Holm3, Andrew Alan Johnson4, Tuan Anh Nguyen5, Evan Nicoll-Johnson6, Dr. Marius Palz7, Gerard Persoon8, Victoria C. Ramenzoni9, Veronica Walker Vadillo0 ...
    Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Environmental Movements in Asia

    de Arne Kalland, Gerard Persoon ...
    Series series NIAS Man and Nature in Asia
    This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies. Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    de Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    de Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    de Nicholas Menzies ...
    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    de Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha ...
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

    Edición de John Connell, Eric Waddell ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment ... Leer más

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  • Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia

    Locating the commonweal

    Edición de Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant resource sectors – agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism –providing a rare in-depth ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Nature in the Global South

    Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

    de Warwick Anderson, Charles Zerner ...
    A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Struggle Against the State

    Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

    de Ashok Swain ...
    Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced people mobilize to ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management

    A legal pluralism perspective from India

    Edición de Maarten Bavinck, Amalendu Jyotishi ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods. Issues of governance and management are complicated by the competing claims of parallel legal systems, including state, customary, religious, project and local laws.Whereas much has been written about property rights, this unique collection takes a legal ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD