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  • Forests as Fuel

    Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South

    by Sarah Hitchner, John Schelhas, J. Peter Brosius ...
    In the US South, wood-based bioenergy schemes are being promoted and implemented through a powerful vision merging social, environmental, and economic benefits for rural, forest-dependent communities. While this dominant narrative has led to heavy investment in experimental technologies and rural development, many complexities and complications have emerged during implementation. Forests as Fuel ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Communities and Conservation

    Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

    by Janis Alcorn, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, J Peter Brosius, Marcus Colchester, Walter Coward, Louise Fortmann, Augusto B. Gatmaytan, Emmy Hafild, Tania Li, Owen Lynch, Marshall Murphree, Rod Neumann, Peter Poole, Dianne Rocheleau, Richard Schroeder, Richard Chase Smith, Christopher Tarnowski, Roem Topatimasang, Anna Tsing, Ken Wilson ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in ... Read more

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  • New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

    Intersections

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Luisa Maffi, Willett Kempton, Don D. Fowler, Michael R. Dove, Thomas L. Leatherman, Barbara Rose Johnston, J Peter Brosius, Leslie Sponsel, Kathryn R. Winthrop, Alice E. Ingerson, Bonnie J. McCay, Eric C. Poncelet, Donald L. Hardesty ...
    Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Water Ethics

    Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

    Edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Peter G. Brown, Dr. ...
    Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

    Mapping the Long View

    Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...
    Series series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
    Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...
    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

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  • Environmental Anthropology Today

    Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

    Edited by Sandra Harding ...
    For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD