The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition): A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition) -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Section 1. So, What Is Environmental Anthropology? -- 1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology -- 2. Smallholders, Householders -- 3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis -- 4. Gender and Environment -- 5. A View from a Point -- 6. Ethics Primer for University Students Intending to Become Natural Resources Managers and Administrators -- Section 2. What Does Population Have to Do with It? -- 7. Ester Boserup's Theory of Agrarian Change -- 8. The Benefits of the Commons -- 9. 7 Billion and Counting -- 10. Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment -- 11. Carrying Capacity's New Guise -- 12. The Environment as Geopolitical Threat -- Section 3. What Are Urban, Rural, and Suburban Environments? -- 13. The Growth of World Urbanism -- 14. Economic Growth and the Environment -- 15. Bhopal -- 16. The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents -- 17. Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency -- 18. The Anti-Politics Machine -- Section 4. How Does Globalization Affect Environment and Culture? -- 19. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? -- 20. Bottled Water -- 21. Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon -- 22. Land Tenure and REDD+ -- 23. Friction -- Section 5. How Do Identities Shape Ecological Experiences? -- 24. Cultural Theory and Environmentalism -- 25. Endangered Forests, Endangered People -- 26. The Nature of Gender -- 27. "But I Know It's True" -- 28. Bringing the Moral Economy Back in . . . to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements -- 29. How to Queer Ecology -- Section 6. Can Biodiversity Be Conserved? -- 30. Neoliberal Conservation -- 31. The Power of Environmental Knowledge -- 32. Radical Ecology and Conservation Science -- 33. Stolen Apes -- 34. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources -- Section 7. Is Green Consumerism the Answer? -- 35. The Invisible Giant -- 36. Treading Lightly? -- 37. What Is Degrowth? -- 38. Protecting the Environment the Natural Way -- Section 8. Okay, Now What? -- 39. Living Up to Our Words -- 40. Social Responsibility and the Anthropological Citizen -- 41. World Is Burning, Sky Is Falling, All Hands on Deck! -- 42. A Wonderfully Incomplete Bibliography of Action-Oriented Anthropology and Applied Environmental Social Science -- Contributors -- Index