Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia write by Joshua Lockyer. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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 solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.
The Pursuit of Ecotopia
The Pursuit of Ecotopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Ecotopia write by E. N. Anderson. This book was released on 2010-01-22. The Pursuit of Ecotopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world. Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of "ecotopia"—a conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship. In this controversial and brilliantly written book, author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same shared sense of emotional rationality practiced by traditional cultures. He draws lessons from ecologically successful traditional societies—and also draws cautionary tales from traditional societies that have responded maladaptively to disruption and failed ecologically as a result.
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environment and Citizenship in Latin America write by Alex Latta. This book was released on 2012-07-01. Environment and Citizenship in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
Risky Futures
Risky Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Risky Futures write by Olga Ulturgasheva. This book was released on 2022-08-12. Risky Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.
Ecological Nostalgias
Ecological Nostalgias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Nostalgias write by Olivia Angé. This book was released on 2020-11-01. Ecological Nostalgias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
