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  • Japanese Whaling?

    End of an Era

    by Arne Kalland, Brian Moeran ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling, showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The volume discusses what happens when that culture is threatened. At the same time as explaining the work organization of those involved in whaling, the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Shingu

    A Study of a Japanese Fishing Community

    by Arne Kalland ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    From being an important centre which attracted a large number of merchants during the feudal period, Shingū, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing circumstances. Although Japan is the largest fishing nation in the world, when originally published this book was the first ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Environmental Movements in Asia

    by 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 ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Unveiling the Whale

    Discourses on Whales and Whaling

    by Arne Kalland ...
    Series Book 12 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book, the first of its kind, is therefore not about whales and whaling per se but about how people ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Asian Perceptions of Nature

    A Critical Approach

    by Ole Bruun, Arne Kalland ...
    This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Living with Transition in Laos

    Market Intergration in Southeast Asia

    by Jonathan Rigg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Southeast Asia

    The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development

    by Jonathan Rigg ...
    The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth?This book charts the development of Southeast Asia, examining the economies of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma alongside the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Small-Scale Fisheries, and Blue Justice

    Fishscapes and Alternative Worldviews

    by Sunil Santha ...
    Series series Indigenous and Environmental Social Work
    This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in their eco-social world. Further, it critically examines the nature of climate change adaptation and its implications on small-scale fisheries.Both ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Nature, Environment and Society

    Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India

    by Nicolas Lainé ...
    The future of humanity lies uncertain as nature falls prey to the loot and plunder initiated in the name of development, growth and progress today. As the vast riches of the earth continue to be endangered, a global consciousness regarding the importance of natural resources, biodiversity, etc. is on the rise. Given such a scenario, what is required is further understanding of man’s interaction ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia

    Epistemologies, Practices and Locales

    Edited by Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result of monolithic actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating ... Read more

    $65.99 USD