312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
297 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies. Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than... Read more
1: An Anthropological Perspective on Environmental Movements; 2: Local Dimensions of ‘Global' Environmental Debates; 3: Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement in India; 4: Culture, Gender and Community in Taiwan's Environmental Movement; 5: The Forest Grant Movement in Japan; 6: The Anti-Tropical Timber Campaign in Japan; 7: Local Environmentalism in Northeast Thailand; 8: Symbols and Displacement; 9: Local Resource Dependency and Utilization on Timpaus; 10: Asna Women: Empowered or Merely Enlisted?; 11: Divergent Approaches to the Environment in Kerala; 12: Perspectives on Waste in Urban India
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Arne Kalland, Gerard Persoon
