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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Kopnina (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) , Eleanor Shoreman-OuimetPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 1.030kg ISBN: 9781138782877ISBN 10: 1138782874 Pages: 508 Publication Date: 12 August 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Part 1: The Development of Environmental Anthropology 1. Introduction 2. History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology 3. Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology 4. Anthropology and the Environment: Beginnings 5. Ethnoscientific implications of classification as a socio-cultural process Part 2: Investigations in sub-fields of environmental anthropology 6. Enviromateriality: Exploring the Links between Political Ecology and Material Culture Studies 7. Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction 8. Architectural Anthropology: Developing methodological framework for Indigenous wellbeing 9. Beyond ""nature"": Towards more engaged and care-full ways of relating to the environment Part 3: Ecological Knowledge, Belief and Sustainability 10. An Anthropology of Nature – or an Industrialist Anthropology? 11. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation 12. The Bible, Religion, and the Environment 13. What’s ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology 14. Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination 15. Anthropological Approaches to Energy Part 4: Climate Change, Resilience and Vulnerability 16. Disasters and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment 17. The Concepts of Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Anthropology of Climate Change 18. Climate, Environment and Society in Northwest Greenland 19. Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Human Adaptation, Sustainable Consumption and Environmental Governance 20. Climate change adaptation and development planning: from resilience to transformation? Part 5: Justice, ethics, and governance 21. Justice for All: inconvenient truths and reconciliation in human-non-human relations 22. Environmental Ethics and Environmental Anthropology 23. Battle of the Ecologies–Deep vs. Political: An Investigation of Anthropocentrism in the Social Sciences 24. ‘Good governance’, corruption, and forest protection: critical insights from environmental anthropology 25. Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism Part 6: Health, Population, and Environment 26. Local and organic food movements 27. Anthropocentrism and the making of Environmental Health 28. Multi-Species Entanglements, Anthropology and Environmental Health Justice 29. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Breast Cancer and Environmental Health 30. Excessive Human Numbers in a World of Finite Limits: Confronting the Threshold of Collapse Part 7: Environment and Education 31. Children’s language about the environment 32. ""You have to do it"": Creating Agency for Environmental Sustainability through Experiential Education 33. Cognition and cultural modeling 34. Perceiving Nature’s Personhood: Anthropological Enhancements to Environmental Education 35. Schooling the World: Land-based pedagogies and the culture of schooling"Reviews"""It is an informative and enlightening read for accomplished academics and new scholars in anthropology, ecology and conservation or similar related disciplines. Although geared primarily toward social anthropologists this book provides a plentiful source of up-to-date references and case studies for anyone with a general interest in environmental anthropology or wishing to delve deeper into associated subject areas, coming from a biological conservation or social science background. It offers a uniquely holistic overview of anthropology, taking as its point of departure pressing environmental challenges, whilst effectively conveying the message that anthropologists should look beyond their subject and adopt an interdisciplinary approach when exploring social and environmental issues."" Hannah E.Parathian, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon." It is an informative and enlightening read for accomplished academics and new scholars in anthropology, ecology and conservation or similar related disciplines. Although geared primarily toward social anthropologists this book provides a plentiful source of up-to-date references and case studies for anyone with a general interest in environmental anthropology or wishing to delve deeper into associated subject areas, coming from a biological conservation or social science background. It offers a uniquely holistic overview of anthropology, taking as its point of departure pressing environmental challenges, whilst effectively conveying the message that anthropologists should look beyond their subject and adopt an interdisciplinary approach when exploring social and environmental issues. Hannah E.Parathian, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon. ""It is an informative and enlightening read for accomplished academics and new scholars in anthropology, ecology and conservation or similar related disciplines. Although geared primarily toward social anthropologists this book provides a plentiful source of up-to-date references and case studies for anyone with a general interest in environmental anthropology or wishing to delve deeper into associated subject areas, coming from a biological conservation or social science background. It offers a uniquely holistic overview of anthropology, taking as its point of departure pressing environmental challenges, whilst effectively conveying the message that anthropologists should look beyond their subject and adopt an interdisciplinary approach when exploring social and environmental issues."" Hannah E.Parathian, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon. Author InformationHelen Kopnina is assistant professor of environmental anthropology at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is also a coordinator and lecturer within the Sustainable Business Program and researcher in the fields of environmental education and environmental social sciences at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is an environmental anthropologist and currently teaches in the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on human–environment interactions, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards, and the effects of climate change. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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