Custom cover image
Custom cover image

Changing Mountain Communities : Between Certainties and Uncertainties

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Bozen-Bolzano : bu,press, 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource 266 p.)ISBN:
  • 9788860462046
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This book examines the complex transformations currently affecting mountain communities. Moving beyond simple narratives of modernization or decline, it highlights the diversity and contradictions displayed by the ways in which these communities experience change – moulded by ongoing negotiations over resources, sustainability, tourism, and heritage. The chapters show that certainties and uncertainties are deeply intertwined in mountain life, often shaping each other in unexpected ways. While climate change has become a certainty, social, economic, and political responses remain uncertain, requiring ongoing experimentation. This tension influences how communities construct identities and traditions, offering both comfort and new challenges as they navigate an unpredictable future. Through comparative, ethnographic, and anthropological case studies from Europe and South America, the book explores how people and their environments continuously fashion and transform one another amid ecological, economic, and cultural changes. It offers theoretical perspectives for understanding evolving identities, emotions, and the future of mountain societiesPPN: PPN: 1983968498Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
No physical items for this record

Open Access. Unrestricted online access star

Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International CC BY-SA 4.0 cc:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Anmerkungen zur Barrierefreiheit: Accessibility options of PDF file not available.

eng

KIT – The University in the Helmholtz Association                         Home | Legals | Privacy policy | KIT