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Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of two Pastoral Societies

In: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation v.2

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Abstract

A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to ""risk"" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the

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Risk management in a hazardous environment: a comparative study of two pastoral societies

In: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation 2

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English

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Springer

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9780387275819

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