| 書(shū)目名稱 | Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment |
| 副標(biāo)題 | A Comparative Study |
| 編輯 | Michael Bollig |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/831/830693/830693.mp4 |
| 概述 | This comparative ethnographic study of risk-related strategies is unique because of its comparative dimension in the research, the author‘s address of risk and consequent societal adaptations in group |
| 叢書(shū)名稱 | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation |
| 圖書(shū)封面 |  |
| 描述 | .A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to "risk" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the understanding of individual strategies and numerous social institutions. It is not simply a peripheral and transient moment in a group’s history. Anthropologists interested in forager societies have emphasized risk management strategies as a major force shaping hunting and gathering routines and structuring institutions of food sharing and territorial behavior. This book builds on some of these developments but through the analysis of quite complex pastoral and farming peoples and in populations with substantial known histories. The method of analysis depends heavily on the controlled comparis |
| 出版日期 | Book 2006 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | Risk Management; biology; ecology; environment; environmental sciences; evolution; innovation; population |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-27582-6 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-3902-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-27582-6Series ISSN 1574-0501 |
| issn_series | 1574-0501 |
| copyright | Springer-Verlag US 2006 |
|Archiver|手機(jī)版|小黑屋|
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