Overview
- Provides a multidisciplinary and thorough study of the interaction between humans and the natural world
- Includes many visual figures and tables to help readers understand methods and results and the local situation
- Contains extensive data, including that on the flora of the Solomon Islands
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ethnobiology (EBL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity. This volume documents the subsistence lifestyle of the people and their indigenous ecological knowledge, analyzes the effects of recent socioeconomic changes on the people and ecosystem, and proposes future directions for sustainability. The contents have been designed to answer questions such as, “What kinds of factors have determined whether current human actions are sustainable or will result in a collapse of biocultural diversity in the Solomon Islands?”; “How do Solomon Islanders recognize nature and biodiversity conservation in traditional ways or under socioeconomic changes?”; and “How can harmony between humans and nature be achieved in the Solomon Islands under changing socioeconomic conditions?” A truly transdisciplinary approach is applied, integrating theories of human ecology, quantitative ethnobiology, and folk ecology and methods of vegetation surveys, ethnographic fieldwork, remote sensing, and health surveys, in order to link different domains of humans and the natural world. In addition, this work focuses on the importance of understanding of diversity not only in natural environments, but also in human societies, and will be a valuable source for many, especially ecologists, anthropologists, conservation practitioners, and rural development planners.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem
Book Subtitle: Cultural Adaptation in the Solomon Islands
Authors: Takuro Furusawa
Series Title: Ethnobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-904-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-902-8Published: 11 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5725-1Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-904-2Published: 28 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-7553
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Environment, general, Plant Ecology, Ecosystems, Cultural Studies