"Why did the fish cross the road?" Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge in Bangladesh

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Sillitoe, Paul (author) and Alam, Mahbub (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Bangladesh: Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07334
    Subject Term:
    conflict, environment, environmental quality, indigenous knowledge, information issues, knowledge, politics, religion, social change, traditional knowledge, risk management, fishing, local, climate, climate change, Bangladesh (Southern Asia), and uncertainties
    Notes:
    Pages 145-183 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., Calls for sensitivity to local conditions, issues, uncertainties and knowledge. Notes loss in local knowledge. "Agencies need to realise that cultural diversity and local people's knowledge and practices should contribute significantly to our understanding and protection of natural environments."

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