00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612730444 Buklod 20180403163104.0 a r |||| u| ta 150204s2015 enka rb |001 0|eng d 9780415715997 (paperback) (iLib)UPD-00360916590 SS-11296 astbooks Php4,043.40 Geography DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC GE 195 D68 2015 Dove, Michael 1949- author. Science, society and the environment applying anthropology and physics to sustainability Michael R. Dove and Daniel M. Kammen. London Routledge 2015. xiii, 163 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : the anthropology and physics of sustainable environmental systems -- The virtues of mundane science : studying the everyday -- Nature, society, and science in anthropogenic grasslands : studying declensionist discourses -- High-modern versus local folk views of dearth and abundance : studying failure vs success in resource management systems -- Differences in perceptions of climate change between and within nations : studying science, scientists, and folk -- Conclusions : reflections on inter-disciplinarity, sustainability, and thermodynamics. In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated. Environmental sociology. Sustainability Social aspects. Human ecology. Applied anthropology. Science and the humanities. Kammen, Daniel M. 1962- author. FO UPD DMLS GE 195 D68 2015 Book