Author: Arler, Finn & Svennevig, Ingeborg; editors:
Title: Cross-Cultural Protection of Nature and the Environment
Description: Odense [Denmark], Odense University Press, 1997. orig.wrappers. 25x17cm, 248 pp. Includes bibliographical references.. Ill.. Rubbed. Corners bumped. Large rubberstamp to half-title. Good. ¶ Contains 18 papers. Includes: EU and environmental policy partnership - concerns and perceptions; A community-based approach to multi-generational environmental valution; Sustainability and the liberal-communitarian debate; The good life below the snow-line: pluralism, community and narrative; The use of "red lists" as an indicator of biodiversity; Nature, culture and biodiversity; Increase of biodiversity through biotechnology: genetic pollution or second order evolution?; Biodiversity and the importance of the legal framework; Common knowledge and resource conservation, globally and locally; Utilizing Amazonian indigenous knowledge in the conservation of biodiversity: can Kayapó management strategies be equitably utilized and applied?; Local peoples of the Western World - the introduction of local cultures in the Wadden Sea area; Modernity, nature and ethics; Global partnership - matter of friendship, reciprocity or mutual advantage?; Religionsand conservation. A survey; Policy discourses on environmental problems in Ecuador and Norway - a comparative perspective; Trade offs in joint implementation strategies. The Central American forestry case; Global solutions and local understandings. Conceptual and perceptual obstacles to global ethics and international environmental law.

Keywords: Environmental Protection, Nature Conservation, Environment, Cross-Cultural, Comparative, Policy, , ,