Indigenous Environmental Knowledge : Reappraisal /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. PREFACE
- 2. FARMING
- Origins.-Responding to site and soil variations
- Coping with seasonal variations
- Maintaining soil fertility
- Coping with weeds and pests
- Cultural and religious for change
- 3. FOOD SUPPLIES AND NUTRITION
- Traditional diets
- Insights from nutritional science
- Input patterns for different classes of nutrients
- Starvation and malnutrition The paradoxical efficacy of traditional diets
- 4. HOUSE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
- Design criteria
- The humid tropics
- The tropical highlands
- The desert fringe
- The temperate zone
- Pressures for change
- A future for traditional designs?- 5. FUEL SUPPLIES
- Traditional wood harvesting
- Disruptive influences
- Alternative energy sources
- Better ways of burning wood
- Rehabilitating forests
- Overall sustainability of firewood production systems
- 6. HERBAL MEDICINE
- Mixed expectations
- Patterns of village use
- Residual difficulties
- Remedial strategies
- 7. WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE DISPOSAL
- Water use
- Water quality issues
- Other water and waste related hazards
- Remedial strategies
- 8. PROSPECTS FOR VILLGE DEVELOPMENT
- Quality of life shortfalls
- External factors
- Influences arising from within communities
- Constructive interventions
- Augmenting incomes
- Comprehensive development plans
- 9. LESSONS FOR THE WORLD AT LARGE
- Contemporary issues
- Energy economies in agriculture and food distribution
- Energy economies in architecture and household management
- Protecting crop diversity
- Lessons from traditional medicine
- Improving dietary balance
- Attitudes to wild species
- REFERENCES.