Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions
- ISBN-10
- 1135044139
- ISBN-13
- 9781135044138
- Series
- Environmental Anthropology
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-18
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Helen Kopnina
Description
This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of "natural resources" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of "nature," and "wilderness" beyond the label of "ecosystem services." By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. It is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2017-11-10
- 139 pages
- Ebook
- Waveland Press
-
- 2008-06-25
- 119 pages
- Paperback
- Waveland Press
Similar books
-
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology
By Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Helen KopninaThis volume enables scholars and students quick access to both established and trending environmental anthropological explorations into theory, methodology and practice.
-
Environmental Anthropology Today
By Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Helen KopninaThis 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 ...
-
The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition): A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
By Richard Wilk, Nora Haenn, Allison HarnishThis volume offers an introduction to the breadth of ecological and environmental anthropology as well as to its historical trends and current developments.
-
Power in Conservation: Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology
By Carol CarpenterThis book examines theories related to the anthropology of conservation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, anthropology and political ecology, as well as conservation practitioners and policymakers.
-
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
By Joshua Lockyer, James R. VetetoIn order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a ...
-
A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health
By Merrill SingerFeaturing contributions from noted scholars in medical anthropology, environmental and public health studies, and related fields in the social sciences, this timely volume gets to the root of such broad concerns as to the reasons why humans ...
-
Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology
By Emilio F. MoranDesigned to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive ...
-
Environmental Anthropology: Critical Concepts in Anthropology
By Helen KopninaAs environmental anthropology flourishes as never before, this new four-volume set from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of academic and practical ...
-
New Directions in Anthropology and Environment: Intersections
By Carole L. CrumleyNew Directions in Environment and Anthropology will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments.
-
Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader
By Michael R. Dove, Carol Carpenter... 398-400, 402-13, 415, 417, 419 Manser, Bruno 368-70, 379, 381 Margalef, Ramon 33 Maring 32, 254-5, 257-63 Marx, Karl 285 Mauss, Marcel 12-16, 18-19, 157 Maya 284 Mbuti 59 McKey, Doyle 35 Meggers, Betty 29-30 Meratus Dayak(s) 396-7, ...