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  title info:
    title: Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
    sub title: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies
  name:
    name part: Bollig, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 442 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 comparisons of different populations sharing some cultural characteristics but differing in exposure to certain risks or hazards. The central questions guiding this approach are: 1) How are hazards generated through environmental variation and degradation, through increasing internal stratification, violent conflicts and marginalization? 2) How do these hazards result in damages to single households or to individual actors and how do these costs vary within one society? 3) How are hazards perceived by the people affected? 4) How do actors of different wealth, social status, age and gender try to minimize risks by delimiting the effect of damages during an on-going crisis and what kind of institutionalized measures do they design to insure themselves against hazards, preventing their occurrence or l…
  table of contents: Studying Hazard and Risk in Pastoral Societies -- An Outline of Pokot and Himba Societies: Environment, Political Economy and Cultural Beliefs -- Hazards and Damages -- The Perception of Droughts and Disasters -- Coping Strategies during Drought and Disaster -- Buffering Mechanisms: Minimising Vulnerability -- Hazards, Risk and Risk Minimisation in African Pastoral Societies.
  note: by Michael Bollig.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Community ecology, Biotic
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Community & Population Ecology
  classification: HM545
  classification: 301
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 2
  identifier: 9780387275826
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-27582-6
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    record creation date: 100509
    record change date: 20151120183532.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-27582-6