Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Modern Crises and Traditional StrategiesThe 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 might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and

" Jérôme Tournadre draws on interviews and observations to take the reader from the backstreets of the squatters' camps to international militant circles

It contains a set of questions and tasks for students as well as further project suggestions

and gives a comprehensive account of how the international economic order operates

the unnamed narrator

and Middle Eastern breathing practices

Buddhists are challenged as never before to turn wisdom into strategic action to foster systemic social change

nucleic-acid-based amplification techniques using various forms of polymerase chain reaction are now widely implemented

Explores the particulars of minority-serving institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness

tourism and popular culture

German and Italian

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with both positive and negative potential effects on their audiences