Environmental social sciences [electronic resource] : methods and research design / edited by Ismael Vaccaro, Eric Alden Smith, Shankar Aswani.
Vaccaro, Ismael.; Smith, Eric Alden.; Aswani, Shankar.
2010
GF26 .E585 2010eb
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Title Environmental social sciences [electronic resource] : methods and research design / edited by Ismael Vaccaro, Eric Alden Smith, Shankar Aswani.
ISBN 9780511914898 (electronic bk.)
9780521110846
9780521125710 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 382 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number GF26 .E585 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.2
Summary "The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. Here, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from Madagascar to the United States, and from prehistoric and historic cases to contemporary rural and urban ones. It deals with climate change, deforestation, environmental knowledge, natural reserves, politics and ownership of natural resources, and the effect of differing spatial and temporal scales. Contributing to the intellectual project of interdisciplinary environmental social science, this book shows the possibilities social science can provide to environmental studies and to larger global problems and thus will be of equal interest to social and natural scientists and policy makers"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
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Added Author Vaccaro, Ismael.
Smith, Eric Alden.
Aswani, Shankar.
Available in Other Form Environmental social sciences.
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1. Introduction / E. A. Smith and I. Vaccaro.
2. People, numbers, and natural resources: demography in environmental research / O. Beltran.
3. Production decisions and time allocation: a guide to data collection / R. Hames.
4. Analyzing the politics of natural resources: from theories of property rights to institutional analysis and beyond / A. Poteete.
5. Extreme events, tipping points and vulnerability: methods in political economy of environment / E. C. Jones.
6. Local communities and natural resources: ethnobiology in practice / L. Zanotti, D. Glover and J. Sepez.
7. Mapping histories: cultural landscapes and walkabout methods / V. Strang.
8. Metaphors and myths in news reports of an Amazonian lost tribe: society, environment and literary analysis / C. Slater.
9. Water decision-makers in a desert city: text analysis and environmental social science / Amber Wutich and C. Gravlee
10. Linking human and natural systems: social networks, environment and ecology / J. Johnson and D. Griffith.
11. Khat commodity chains in Madagascar: multi-sited ethnography at multiple scales / L. Gezon.
12. Spatio-temporal methodologies in environmental anthropology: geographic information systems, remote sensing, landscape changes and local knowledge / E. Brondizio and R. R. Chowdhury.
13. Deep time, diachronic change, and the integration of multi-scalar data: archaeological methods for exploring human-environment dynamics / E. Jones.
14. Comparing trajectories of climate, class and production: an historical ecology of American yeomen / M. Scholl, D. N. Murray and C. L. Crumley.
15. Anthropology and natural resource management: methodological integrations / S. Aswani.

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