The Anthropology of Sustainability

Beyond Development and Progress

Bibliographic Data

ID5766752
EditorsMarc Brightman (0000-0002-6360-8449), Jérôme Lewis
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Anthropology of Sustainability (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2
OpenAlexW2743190100
Open LibraryOL28277981M
ISBN9781137566362
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited1

This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · Human Ecology · Social aspects · Sustainability

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