ISBN:
9780415715980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (179 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Science, Society and the Environment : Applying Anthropology and Physics to Sustainability
DDC:
304.2
Abstract:
In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated by Imperata cylindrica (sword grass); the third reworks th
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: the anthropology and physics of sustainable environmental systems; 2 The virtues of mundane science: studying the everyday; 3 Nature, society, and science in anthropogenic grasslands: studying declensionist discourses; 4 High modern vs local folk views of dearth and abundance: studying failure vs success in resource management systems; 5 Differences in perceptions of climate change between and within nations: studying science, scientists, and folk
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Conclusion: reflections on the interdisciplinary projectReferences; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
