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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge - Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R5,649
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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge - Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): John Edington

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge - Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

John Edington

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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.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: September 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: John Edington
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 263
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-62490-7
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
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LSN: 3-319-62490-3
Barcode: 9783319624907

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