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  • Anthropology and Disaster in Japan

    Cultural Contributions to Recovery after the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

    de Hiroki Takakura ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Anthropology
    This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological perspective. It critically reflects on the challenges of conducting anthropological research when encountering disaster at home and the position of social scientist as sufferer. Emphasizing the role of culture in disaster mitigation, the book offers theoretical consideration of the ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Global Warming and Human - Nature Dimension in Northern Eurasia

    Edición de Tetsuya Hiyama, Hiroki Takakura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia. Spring flooding, ice-jam movements, and monitoring using remote sensing are included. Additionally, current reindeer herding of indigenous peoples in Siberia and related environmental changes such as waterlogging, rising temperatures, and vegetation changes are ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Permafrost and Culture

    Global Warming and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation (Study Guide for Environmental Education)

    de Hiroki Takakura, Yoshihiro Iijima, Vanda Ignatieva, Alexander Fedorov, Masanori Goto, Toshikazu Tanaka ...
    Series Libro 26 - Center for Northeast Asian Studies Report
    This book is an attempt to understand the impact of Climate Change on the Arctic human societies from the indigenous perspectives, by focusing on the peoples living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. Historically, and also today, the livelihood of the Sakha people is closely related to permafrost. Scientific evidence shows that the thawing of the permafrost through ... Leer más

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  • The Benefits of the Cold and Domestication

    A New Understanding of Human–Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments

    Edición de Florian Stammler, Hiroki Takakura ...
    Series series Arctic Worlds
    This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.The chapters draw on work from anthropology, genetics, law, and geography, with a range of ethnographic case studies from cold environments. The contributors offer new evidence for rethinking the dichotomy ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge

    Edición de Thomas F. Thornton, Shonil A. Bhagwat, Ng'endo Kanui Mary, López-Maldonado Yolando ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides an overview of key themes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) and anchors them with brief but well-grounded empirical case studies of relevance for each of these themes, drawn from bioculturally diverse areas around the world. It provides an incisive, cutting-edge overview of the conceptual and philosophical issues, while providing constructive examples of how IEK ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • A Chance for Lasting Survival

    Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas

    Traducido por Richard B. Harris ...
    de Pan Wenshi ...
    From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was conducted during a significant transition period in Chinese history, as the country opened its society and science to the world. The project ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Building Resilience

    Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

    de Daniel P. Aldrich ...
    The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: "A fascinating book on an important topic."—E.L. Hirsch, in ChoiceEach year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

    de Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    "A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the YearMatsutake is the most ... Leer más

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  • The Archipelago of Hope

    de Gleb Raygorodetsky ...
    While our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples who, having developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over generations, have observed these changes for decades. For them, climate change is not an abstract concept or policy issue, but the reality of daily life.After two decades of working with indigenous ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Making and Moving Knowledge

    Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge

    de Barbara Neis, John Lutz ...
    It has been clear for some time that research does not automatically translate into knowledge, nor does knowledge necessarily translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, research efforts are wasted if we cannot devise efficient and understandable processes to create and transfer knowledge ... Leer más

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  • The Arctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Klaus Dodds, Jamie Woodward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic brings with it the spectre of costly disruption and interference in indigenous lives and communal welfare. For others, the ... Leer más

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  • Know-It-All Anthropology

    The 50 Extraordinary Human Innovations and Events, Each Explained in Under a Minute

    Edición de Simon Underdown ...
    An informative reference containing concise explanations for the major anthropological discoveries in human physical, cultural, and social history.Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet?These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on ... Leer más

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