Essays about: "human-environmental relations ecologically unequal exchange environmental sustainability"

Found 1 essay containing the words human-environmental relations ecologically unequal exchange environmental sustainability.

  1. 1. Islands of Globesity : A Study on Human Health, Unequal Exchange, and Human-Environmental Relations in Samoa. Report from a Minor Field Study in Samoa, May-June 2007

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Ragnheiður Bogadóttir; [2008]
    Keywords : imported food; health; non-communicable disease; human-environmental relations ecologically unequal exchange environmental sustainability; Pacific Islands; Oceania; Polynesia; Samoa; human ecology; Ecology; Ekologi; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this field study, based on fieldwork during a period of two months, the impact of imported food and goods on human health and the environment in the Pacific island state of Samoa is investigated. The focus is on the direct impact of imported food on human health, as well as the role of imported food and goods in changing human-environmental relations. READ MORE