An Anthropological Take on Sustainable Development
A Comparative Study of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18949310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C P Kottak (0000-0001-7338-981X, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 501-510 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.63.4.g35k2c3t0tpyqgh3 |
| OpenAlex | W2039652349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
Anthropologists can use longitudinal, comparative, and multiscale research to illuminate aspects of global change and development. Goals and procedures of the emerging field of sustainability science are examined here in relation to those of the linkages methodology and other multisited, historical, and transnational approaches in recent anthropology. Conclusions about the sustainability of development emerge from field studies in Arembepe, Brazil, and Ivato, Madagascar. The contrasts between Arembepe and Ivato, and the regions and nations that include them, are sharp and almost certainly irreversible. Madagascar suffers from an overdose of environmentalism, while Brazil has been dominated by developmentalism. Arembepe now has a sustainable diversified economy and cultural contacts linking its future with the dynamics of capitalist globalization. Ivato, by contrast, is in a region and nation with dramatically increasing population and diminishing natural resources but no investment stream to provide signi
Climate change · Development economics · Developmentalism · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental change · Environmentalism · Field (mathematics) · Geography · Globalization · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Cultural or Ecological Sustainability? The Effect of Cultural Change on Sabal Palm Management Among the Lowland Maya of Mexico
Kalkınma Antropolojisinin Kuramsal Eleştirisi
La nature de la durabilité sociale
To The End Of Theory-Practice 'Apartheid
Return to Madagascar
Intra-cultural Differences in the Importance of Plant Resources and Their Impact on Management Intensification in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico
Sustainability Science
Sweetness and power
Culture, Power, Place
The Extended-case Method and Situational Analysis
Anthropological Locations
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Beyond “Culture”
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Ecological Awareness, Environmentalist Action, and International Conservation Strategy
Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand
The New Ecological Anthropology
Political Economy
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2019 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |