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Acknowledgements. About the Authors.
Introduction; H. Selin.
1. Environmentalism and Images of the Other; A. Kalland.
2. The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Re-Thinking the Western/Non-Western Divide M. Dove, M.T. Campos, A.S. Mathews, L.J. Meitzner Yoder, A. Rademacher, Suk Bae Rhee, D.S. Smith.
3. Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge across Cultures; R. Ellen.
4. Local Understandings of the Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge; R.C. Dudgeon, F. Berkes.
5. Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human Nature Adaptations; R. Stoffle, R. Toupal, N. Zedeño.
6. Worldviews and Ecology; M.E. Tucker.
7. The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand; S.M. Darlington.
8. Indian Perspectives on Naturalism; D.P. Chattopadhyaya.
9. Japanese Views of Nature and the Environment; J.A. Tucker.
10. Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place; G. Parkes.
11. The Perception of Nature and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa; J. Kesby.
12. Knowing Country: Indigenous Australians and the Land; J.L. Kohen.
13. Both Sides of the Beach: Knowledges of Nature in Oceania; E. Hviding.
14. Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia; W. Balée.
15. Central Andean Views of Nature and the Environment; D.L. Browman.
16. 'Nature Doesn't Come as Clean as We Can Think It': Dene, Inuit, Scientists, Nature and Environment in the Canadian North; E. Bielawski.
17. We Are the Land: Native American Views of Nature; A.L. Booth.
18. Buddhist Views of Nature and the Environment; L. Sponsel, P. Natadecha-Sponsel.
19. Confucian Views of Nature. J. Berthrong.
20. Daoism and Nature; J. Miller.
21. Hindu Views of Nature and the Environment; H. Coward.
22. Nature and Culture: An Islamic Perspective; S. Parvez Manzoor.
23. Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices; J.K. Guelke.
Index.