Confronting Environments - Local Understanding in a Globalizing World

Informationen zum Autor James G. Carrier is Klappentext 6 x 96 x 9 Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1: Selling Space: Power and Resource Allocation in a Caribbean Coastal Community Chapter 4 2: "Working in Nature"! "Caring for Nature": Diverse Views of the Environment in the Context of an Environmental Dispute Chapter 5 3: Developing "Nature": Global Ecology and the Politics of Conservation in Northern Pakistan Chapter 6 4: Getting Engaged: Pollution! Toxic Illness! and Discursive Shift in a Tokyo Community Chapter 7 5: Environmental Conservation and Institutional Environments in Jamaica Chapter 8 6: A Situated Global Imperative: Debating (the Nation's) Forests in Finland Chapter 9 7: A Changing Sense of Place: Direct Action and Environmental Protest in the U.K. Chapter 10 Conclusion: Understandings Matter

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• Authors: James Seditorr Carrier
• Assisted by: James G Carrier (Editor), James G. Carrier (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2004
• EAN: 9780759105621
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-0562-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Globalization; Globalization and the Environment; Globalization and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works