Environmental Social Sciences : Methods and Research Design
ISBN: 9780521125710 | 0521125715
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 12/13/2010
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Evaluating the relationships between human communities and the environment has proved complex in the past. Experts summarise a comprehensive set of methodological tools, generated by the social sciences, that academics, practitioners and students can use for analysis. Chapters are illustrated with ethnographic and environmental examples from all over the world.
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdi... MORE
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdi... MORE
| List of contributors | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. x |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| People, numbers, and natural resources: demography in environmental research | p. 11 |
| Production decisions and time allocation: a guide to data collection | p. 35 |
| Analyzing the politics of natural resources: from theories of property rights to institutional analysis and beyond | p. 57 |
| Extre... MORE | p. 80 |
| Local communities and natural resources: ethnobiology in practice | p. 110 |
| Mapping histories: cultural landscapes and walkabout methods | p. 132 |
| Metaphors and myths in news reports of an Amazonian "Lost Tribe": society, environment and literary analysis | p. 157 |
| Water decision-makers in a desert city: text analysis and environmental social science | p. 188 |
| Linking human and natural systems: social networks, environment, and ecology | p. 212 |
| Khat commodity chains in Madagascar: multi-sited ethnography at multiple scales | p. 238 |
| Spatiotemporal methodologies in environmental anthropology: geographic information systems, remote sensing, landscape changes, and local knowledge | p. 266 |
| Deep time, diachronic change, and the integration of multi-scalar data: archaeological methods for exploring human-environment dynamics | p. 299 |
| Comparing trajectories of climate, class, and production: an historical ecology of American yeomen | p. 322 |
| Socioecological methods for designing marine conservation programs: a Solomon Islands example | p. 349 |
| Index | p. 377 |
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Ismael Vaccaro is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Environment at McGill University, Montral. Eric Alden Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Shankar Aswani is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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