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Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology)**Author: Roy EllenPublisher: Berghahn BooksCategory: Social Research & Statistics, Anthropology, Environmental Factors, Human Geography, Applied Ecology, Social Impact Of Environmental Issues, Environmental Science, Engineering & TechnologyBook Format: PaperbackProbably more than any other British anthropologist, Roy Ellen is associated with the study of ethnobiology; his has also long ranked among the leading names in the field . . . Both readers new to Ellen as well as those

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this

Table Of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction Roy Ellen Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Nino, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo Rajindra K. Puri Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization Rini Soemarwoto Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java Johan Iskandar Chaptert 5. Innovation, 'Hybrid' Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980-2003 Hermien L. Soselisa Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi Simon Platten Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan Dario Novellino Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu: a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor Laura S. Metzner Yoder Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java Michael R. Dove IndexAbout Roy EllenRoy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.