Environmental anthropology today / edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kopnina, Helen.

Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Sustainable living.

Physical Description:

xvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: what can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools of anthropological practice, do to aid conservation efforts, policy initiatives, and our overall understanding of how to survive as citizens of the planet?

Environmental Anthropology Today combines a range of new ethnographic work with chapters exploring key theoretical and methodological issues, and draws on disciplines such as sociology and environmental science as well as anthropology to illuminate those issues. The case studies include work on North America, Europe, India, Africa, Asia, and South America, offering the reader a stimulating and thoughtful survey of the work currently being conducted in the field. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Environmental anthropology of yesterday and today / Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet and Helen Kopnina

The religion and environment interface : spiritual ecology in ecological anthropology / Leslie E. Sponsel

Drawing from traditional and 'indigenous' socioecological theories / Eugene N. Anderson

Environmental politics and policy ambiguities in environmental anthropology / Peter Bille Larsen

Environmental anthropology as one of the spatial sciences / Emilio F. Moran

What about that wrapper? : using consumption diaries in green education / Helen Kopnina

Time and population vulnerability to natural hazards : the pre-Katrina primacy of experience / Daniel H. de Vries

Participatory action research and urban environmental justice : the Pacoima CARE project / Carl A. Maida

Anthropology, climate change and coastal planning / Bob Pokrant and Laura Stocker

From ecosystem services to unfulfilled expectations : factors influencing attitudes toward the Madidi protected area / Teressa Trusty

Who's got the money now? : conservation-development meets the nueva ruralidad in southern Mexico / Nora Haenn

Middle-out conservation : the role of elites in rural American conservation / Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

Learning by heart : an anthropological perspective on environmental learning in Lijiang / Rob Efird

Linking climate action to local knowledge and practice : a case study of diverse Chicago neighborhoods / Jennifer Hirsch ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415781558

0415781558

9780415781565

0415781566

9780203806906

0203806905

OCLC:

671700734

Publisher Number:

99944370602