Overview
Comprehensive – it covers all aspects of indigenous environmental knowledge
Authoritative – it reflects the authors first- hand experience in over 15 developing countries
Clearly written and well illustrated
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably some aspects of health care and wild-species population management, local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from external factors outside their control. However in either case, remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes, especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book’s final chapter.       Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
Book Subtitle: Reappraisal
Authors: John Edington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62491-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62490-7Published: 15 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87326-8Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62491-4Published: 05 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Ecology, Anthropology