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100			_aDove, Michael R. _919990
245			_aScience, society and the environment: _bapplying anthropology and physics to sustainability / _cMichael R. Dove and Daniel M. Kammen.
260			_bRoutledge, _c2015. _aLondon:
300			_axiii, 163 p.
505			_aIntroduction : 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.
520			_aIn 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
600			_aKammen Daniel M. _919991
650			_aEP _919992
650			_aSustainability -- Social aspects. _919993
650			_aEnvironmental sociology. _96006
942			_cBK
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