Coping with changing environments
Subtitle: social dimensions of endangered ecosystems in the developing world
By: edited by Beate Lohnert, Helmut Geist.
Contributors: Lohnert, Beate.; Geist, Helmut, 1958-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Aldershot; Brookfield USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Endangered ecosystems -- Developing countries.; Endangered ecosystems -- Developing countries.; Developing countries -- Social conditions.; Developing countries -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Endangered ecosystems and coping strategies : towards a conceptualization of environmental change in the developing world / Beate Lohnert and Helmut Geist; title: Coping with vulnerability and unsustainability : the case of Nepalese upland farmers / Hans-Georg Bohle; title: Hydropower, rice farmers and the state : the case of deforestation in Laos / Thomas Krings; title: Debating vulnerability, environment and housing : the case of rural-urban migrants in Cape Town, South Africa / Beate Lohnert; title: Soil mining and societal responses : the case of tobacco in eastern Miombo highlands / Helmut Geist; title: Changes of land use and institutions in natural resource management : the case of the Tanzanian Maasailand / Sven Schade; title: Drought hazards and threatened livelihoods : environmental perceptions in Botswana / Fred Krüger; title: Environmental conservation, land tenure and migration : the case of the Atlantic rainforest in southeast Brazil / Florian Dünckmann; title: Why herd animals die : environmental perception and cultural risk management in the Andes / Barbara Göbel; title: Risks and coping strategies of a vulnerable group in the Dominican Dry Forest : the case of charcoal burners in Chalona / Veronika Ulbert; title: Actors, structures and environments: a comparative and transdisciplinary view on regional case studies of global environmental change / Gerhard Petschel-Held, Matthias K.B. Lüdeke and Fritz Reusswig.