Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge | Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change | ISBN 9783839419595

Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge

Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

herausgegeben von Anna-Katharina Hornidge und Christoph Antweiler
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonAnna-Katharina Hornidge
Herausgegeben vonChristoph Antweiler
Buchcover Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge  | EAN 9783839419595 | ISBN 3-8394-1959-X | ISBN 978-3-8394-1959-5
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Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge

Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

herausgegeben von Anna-Katharina Hornidge und Christoph Antweiler
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonAnna-Katharina Hornidge
Herausgegeben vonChristoph Antweiler
Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.