Coping with changing environments : social dimensions of endangered ecosystems in the developing world /
edited by Beate Lohnert, Helmut Geist.
- Aldershot ; Brookfield USA : Ashgate, c1999.
- xxi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endangered ecosystems and coping strategies : towards a conceptualization of environmental change in the developing world / Beate Lohnert and Helmut Geist -- Coping with vulnerability and unsustainability : the case of Nepalese upland farmers / Hans-Georg Bohle -- Hydropower, rice farmers and the state : the case of deforestation in Laos / Thomas Krings -- Debating vulnerability, environment and housing : the case of rural-urban migrants in Cape Town, South Africa / Beate Lohnert -- Soil mining and societal responses : the case of tobacco in eastern Miombo highlands / Helmut Geist -- Changes of land use and institutions in natural resource management : the case of the Tanzanian Maasailand / Sven Schade -- Drought hazards and threatened livelihoods : environmental perceptions in Botswana / Fred Krüger -- Environmental conservation, land tenure and migration : the case of the Atlantic rainforest in southeast Brazil / Florian Dünckmann -- Why herd animals die : environmental perception and cultural risk management in the Andes / Barbara Göbel -- Risks and coping strategies of a vulnerable group in the Dominican Dry Forest : the case of charcoal burners in Chalona / Veronika Ulbert -- Actors, structures and environments: a comparative and transdisciplinary view on regional case studies of global environmental change / Gerhard Petschel-Held, Matthias K.B. Lüdeke and Fritz Reusswig.
1840149582
99073621
GB99-W7972
Endangered ecosystems--Developing countries.
Endangered ecosystems--Developing countries.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
QH77.D44 / C675 1999
333.72 / COP
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endangered ecosystems and coping strategies : towards a conceptualization of environmental change in the developing world / Beate Lohnert and Helmut Geist -- Coping with vulnerability and unsustainability : the case of Nepalese upland farmers / Hans-Georg Bohle -- Hydropower, rice farmers and the state : the case of deforestation in Laos / Thomas Krings -- Debating vulnerability, environment and housing : the case of rural-urban migrants in Cape Town, South Africa / Beate Lohnert -- Soil mining and societal responses : the case of tobacco in eastern Miombo highlands / Helmut Geist -- Changes of land use and institutions in natural resource management : the case of the Tanzanian Maasailand / Sven Schade -- Drought hazards and threatened livelihoods : environmental perceptions in Botswana / Fred Krüger -- Environmental conservation, land tenure and migration : the case of the Atlantic rainforest in southeast Brazil / Florian Dünckmann -- Why herd animals die : environmental perception and cultural risk management in the Andes / Barbara Göbel -- Risks and coping strategies of a vulnerable group in the Dominican Dry Forest : the case of charcoal burners in Chalona / Veronika Ulbert -- Actors, structures and environments: a comparative and transdisciplinary view on regional case studies of global environmental change / Gerhard Petschel-Held, Matthias K.B. Lüdeke and Fritz Reusswig.
1840149582
99073621
GB99-W7972
Endangered ecosystems--Developing countries.
Endangered ecosystems--Developing countries.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
QH77.D44 / C675 1999
333.72 / COP