Community Culture and the Environment
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Communities
ISBN : 142890025X
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Communities
ISBN : 142890025X
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Communities
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Author : Irwin Altman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1984-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521319706
It covers a wide range of topics dealing with the complex relationship between people and the environment.
Author : Irwin Altman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1489904514
Following upon the first two volumes in this series, which dealt with a broad spectrum of topics in the environment and behavior field, ranging from theoretical to applied, and including disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professionally oriented approaches, we have chosen to devote sub sequent volumes to more specifically defined topics. Thus, Volume Three dealt with Children and the Environment, seen from the combined perspective of researchers in environmental and developmental psy chology. The present volume has a similarly topical coverage, dealing with the complex set of relationships between culture and the physical environment. It is broad and necessarily eclectic with respect to content, theory, methodology, and epistemological stance, and the contributors to it represent a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including psy chology, geography, anthropology, economics, and environmental de sign. We were fortunate to enlist the collaboration of Amos Rapoport in the organization and editing of this volume, as he brings to this task a particularly pertinent perspective that combines anthropology and ar chitecture. Volume Five of the series, presently in preparation, will cover the subject of behavioral science aspects of transportation. Irwin Altman Joachim F. Wohlwill ix Contents Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AMOS RAPOPORT Introduction 7 Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Environmental Design 10 The Relationship of Culture and Environmental Design . . . . . . . . . 15 The Variability of Culture-Environment Relations 19 Culture-Specific Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Designing for Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Implications for the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 CHAPTER 2 CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS: STRATEGIES, PROBLEMS, ApPLICATIONS RICHARD W.
Author : Stati Uniti d'America. Environmental protection agency
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Arjun Guneratne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135192863
This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy makers in the fields of environmental conservation and development. The chapters in this book analyse the symbolic schema that shape human-environment relations, whether that of scientists studying the Himalayan environment, public officials crafting policy about it, or people making a living from their engagement with it, and the way that natural phenomena themselves shape human perception of the world. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia, this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya and uses Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment.
Author : John P. Herron
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780826319166
Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.
Author : Marcia McKenzie
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9781572738799
Working across various fields, this draws together poetry, philosophy, journalism, sociology, curriculum studies, indigenous scholarship, feminist and social justice work, environmental ethics, and a range of other fields of inquiry and practice to 'restory' the ways we live on this earth.
Author : Roseann Evans
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Marie Hoff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 1998-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781574441291
The 1990s have been marked by a wide-spread awareness of the convergence of environmental, economic and social problems and issues. Many local workers have begun to recognize that severe setbacks or even collapse of their local economy is strongly related to environmental problems: either to the depletion of local resources (such as timber, fish, or minerals) or to severe pollution and degradation of the local ecosystem. This in-depth collection of case studies of urban and rural communities committed to a process of sustainable development provides a more detailed description of this dynamic process than was previously available. This provocative book demonstrates the commonalities in approach across a wide variety of environmental and cultural settings, examining an emerging consciousness from cultural, economic, social and environmental viewpoints.