ABSTRACT
Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. This volume enables scholars and students quick access to both established and trending environmental anthropological explorations into theory, methodology and practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|68 pages
The development of environmental anthropology
part 2|47 pages
Investigations in sub-fields of environmental anthropology
chapter 6|10 pages
Enviromateriality
chapter 8|15 pages
Architectural anthropology
chapter 9|11 pages
Beyond “nature”
part 3|74 pages
Ecological knowledge, belief, and sustainability
chapter 13|15 pages
What’s ontology got to do with it?
part 4|65 pages
Climate change, resilience, and vulnerability
chapter 17|13 pages
Adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience
chapter 19|12 pages
Taking responsibility for climate change
chapter 20|14 pages
Climate change adaptation and development planning
part 5|71 pages
Justice, ethics, and governance
chapter 21|17 pages
Justice for all
chapter 23|14 pages
Battle of the ecologies: deep versus political
chapter 24|13 pages
Good governance, corruption, and forest protection
chapter 25|12 pages
Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity
part 6|72 pages
Health, population, and environment
chapter 30|15 pages
Excessive human numbers in a world of finite limits
part 7|68 pages
Environment and education