Nature Across Cultures

1. Environmentalism and Images of the Other.- 2. The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western/Non-Western Divide.- 3. Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures.- 4. Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge.- 5. Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations.- 6. Worldviews and Ecology.- 7. The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand.- 8. Indian Perspectives on Naturalism.- 9. Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment.- 10. Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place.- 11. The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 12. Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land.- 13. Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania.- 14. Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia.- 15. Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment.- 16. “Nature Doesn’t Come as Clean as We Can Think It”: Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North.- 17. We Are the Land: Native American Views of Nature.- 18. Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment.- 19. Confucian Views of Nature.- 20. Daoism and Nature.- 21. Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment.- 22. Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective.- 23. Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices.