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 [and others].
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."--Publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.