Explaining human actions and environmental changes

• Main Author: Vayda, Andrew Peter.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Human ecology.; Human beings > Effect of environment on.; Ethnology.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

In this selection of essays from decades of research, Vayda focuses on causal explanations of human and environmental interactions.

Table of Contents:

• Causal explanation as a research goal : dos and don'ts
• Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires
• On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati
• Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation?
• Seeing nature's complexity but not people's
• Against political ecology / with Bradley B. Walters
• Failures of explanation in Darwinian ecological anthropology
• Concepts of process in social science explanations / with Bonnie J. McCay and Cristina Eghenter
• Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers
• The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion.