Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor.

Contributor:

Kopnina, Helen

Series:

Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Section I: Environmental Anthropology: A Brief History

1 Environmental Anthropology, Crisis, and Common Ground: An Introduction to the Second Edition of the Handbook of Environmental Anthropology

2 History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology

3 Environmental Anthropology: An Experimental History

4 Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology

5 Puerto Rican Environmental Anthropology: A Brief Overview

Section II: Ways of Knowing: Theory and Theoretical Debates in Environmental Anthropology

6 Historical Ecology: Agency in Human‑Environment Interaction

7 The Guitar and the Tree: On Environmental Anthropology and Enviromateriality

8 What's Ontology Got to Do with It? On the Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Environmental Anthropology

9 Excavating Environmental Anthropology's Challenging Foundations

Section III: Ways of Knowing and Learning: Methods and Emerging Approaches in Environmental Anthropology

10 All Our Relationships: Settler Translations of Indigenous Relations with Plants

11 Drawing Insights about Place: Spatial Representations of the Environment in Hawai'i

12 Toward a Methodological Framework in Architectural Anthropology for Indigenous Wellbeing

13 Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation

14 Cognition and Cultural Modeling: Understanding the World around Us and Each Other

Section IV: Environment and the Climate Crisis

15 Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Sustainable Consumption and Neoliberal Environmental Governance

16 On Dying Glaciers: Losing Ice and Finding a Response

17 Subsurface Convergence Zones and the Net‑Zero Future: Routing a Carbon Dioxide Emissions Pipeline.

18 Disasters and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment

19 Indigenous Australians and Climate Change: Impacts, Indigenous Voices, and the Need for a Collaborative Radical Response

20 Grounding the Sky: Embodied Health and Expert Knowledge during Climate Crisis

Section V: Environmental Justice

21 Critical Environmental Justice: Anthropological Extensions

22 Engaging with Disaster: The Critical Contributions of Environmental Anthropologists and Ethnographic Data Collection in Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness‑Equity

23 The Puerto Rican Local Food Movement: Transformation after Disaster

24 Elite Pollution, Environmental Justice, and the Making of Environmental Health

25 Refining Relationships: How an Unlikely Community-Scientist Partnership Led to a Historic Environmental Justice Victory

Section VI: Environmental Ethics and Conservation

26 Authenticity as Indigenous Modernity in Namibian Ecotourism: Two Contradictions of Haiǀǀom and!Xung Development under Neoliberal Capitalism

27 A Perfect Fit for the Indigenous "Slot"? Batwa Identity Politics Meets Global Advocacy Agendas in Kahuzi‑Biega National Park

28 Settler Ecologies and Their Decolonization: Three En‑Visions of Ecological Futures

29 Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation

Section VII: Beyond Human: Multispecies Ethnography, Ecological Justice, and Making Space for More‑than‑Human Perspectives

30 Digitized and Datafied Wildlife: Environmental Anthropology and Technology

31 The Anthropology of Plants: Toward a Botany Otherwise

32 Rights of Nature: A Critical Dialogue between Law and Environmental Anthropology

33 Justice for All: Inconvenient Truths and Reconciliation in Human‑Non‑Human Relations

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-051164-3

1-04-074814-7

1-003-46985-X

9781003469858

OCLC:

1579270969

Publisher Number:

CIPO000340352