Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge: Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge

Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

Edited by: Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler

In the series Global Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839419595

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Dr.) is a sociologist and currently Senior Researcher at the Center of Development Research, Bonn University, Germany.
Christoph Antweiler (Prof. Dr.) is an anthropologist and head of the Southeast Asia Department at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction The Nexus of Agency, Knowledge, and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia Christoph Antweiler and Anna-Katharina Hornidge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
‘Knowledge’ in Development Discourse A Critical Review Anna-Katharina Hornidge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Urban Environmental Knowledge as Citizens’ Science Theoretical Issues and Methods from Indonesia Christoph Antweiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Conflicting Frames of Reference Environmental Changes in Coastal Indonesia Christian Reichel, SOFIE ELENA MARTENS and ARNE HARMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
“We Observe the Weather because we are Farmers” Weather Knowledge and Meteorology in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam Judith Ehlert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
“Why did the Fish Cross the Road?” Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge in Bangladesh Paul Sillitoe and Mahbub Alam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Managing Fire Risk in Indonesia’s Peatlands Viola Bizard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Cassava Diversity and Toxicity in Relation to Environmental Degradation A Feature of Food Security in the Moluccas, Indonesia Roy Ellen and Hermien L. Soselisa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
What makes a Social System Resilient? Two Fishing Communities in Indonesia Rio Deswandi, Marion Glaser and Sebastian Ferse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Afterthoughts Issues for an Anthropology of Knowledge and Development Fabian Scholtes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Environment; Southeast Asia; Risk; Pacific Asia; Uncertainty; Development; Tropical Agriculture; Globalization; Nature; Ethnology; Environmental Sociology; Asia

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Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839419595