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9780759105621

Confronting Environments Local Understanding in a Globalizing World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780759105621

  • ISBN10:

    0759105626

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-10-17
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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James G. Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment_not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and the social and cultural contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events with detailed analyses, but also evaluate the political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels. This book will be an excellent resource for policy-makers, researchers, and instructors in environmental use and conservation, anthropology, geography, and political ecology.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(30)
James G. Carrier
Selling Space: Power and Resource Allocation in a Caribbean Coastal Community
31(18)
Donald Macleod
``Working in Nature,'' ``Caring for Nature'': Diverse Views of the Environment in the Context of an Environmental Dispute
49(22)
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Developing ``Nature'': Global Ecology and the Politics of Conservation in Northern Pakistan
71(26)
Kenneth Iain Macdonald
Getting Engaged: Pollution, Toxic Illness, and Discursive Shift in a Tokyo Community
97(22)
Peter Wynn Kirby
Environmental Conservation and Institutional Environments in Jamaica
119(24)
James G. Carrier
A Situated Global Imperative: Debating (the Nation's) Forests in Finland
143(22)
Eeva Berglund
A Changing Sense of Place: Direct Action and Environmental Protest in the U.K.
165(18)
Kay Milton
Conclusion: Understandings Matter 183(14)
Josiah Heyman
About the Contributors 197

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