Environmental Social Sciences

Environmental Social Sciences

Edited By: Ismael Vaccaro, Ericalden Smith and  Shankar Aswani 

The relationship between human communities and the environment

is extremely complex. In order to understand this relationship,

interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. Here, specialists summarize 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. The volume discusses 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 demonstrates the contributions it can make to environmental studies and to larger global problems, and thus will be of interest to social and natural scientists and to policy-makers. [download]

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