An exacting assessment of the bounty policies that facilitated the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath re-evaluates the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing, proposing it constitutes a form of genocide that requires a historical and cultural reckoning.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)

The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. This book follows the Manasir people’s attempts to resist state-run resettlement schemes, preserve their homeland, and try out meaningful ways of life along the emerging reservoir.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General)

Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern Urban Studies

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe traces from the 1970s through the post 1989 period how documentaries and filmmakers began to articulate alternative, aesthetically and ideologically provocative visions of the relationship between human and natural worlds.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leone, examining how colonial ideas shaped forest conservation in West Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Conservation’s Roots illuminates the diversity of practices in premodern environmental history across Europe from the Middle Ages to the brink of modernity. It emphasizes that the ways in which we currently understand “conservation” in the West, which is generally presumed to be a modern invention, are deeply rooted in the environmental practices and regulation of medieval and early modern Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.

Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide. Creating Wilderness consequently situates the park’s fascinating history within a transnational conservation framework.

“This is environmental history of the first order, ranging widely across geographical scales and historical periods to trace the changing discourses and manifestations of the national park model.”  ·  Andrew Denning, Western Washington University

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies Sustainable Development Goals

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Although earthquakes can have disastrous effects on human lives and environments, they can also significantly influence urban development. This book follows the history of two Italian seismic disasters — the 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily — exploring plans preceding the destruction and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies

Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers.  Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

This book addresses the industrial crises, environmental issues, and local attitudes toward energy transitions through case studies in Sardinia and San Pietro. By approaching European transitional politics from an ethnographic perspective, this study focuses on the practices, frameworks and alternative strategies of those who resist the EU Green Deal.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Applied Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both ecological harm and mining economies are sustained.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Environmental issues transcend national boundaries, and thus they have been a particular focus for international organizations for over a century. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Centering on “moving places” – places with locations that are not fixed, but relative – this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.

Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics.  This volume offers a different perspective.  Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology

The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition Sustainable Development Goals

Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Memory Studies

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

“This book fills an important niche on water related issues in anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of water management, use, and conflict… The organization is appropriate and effective.”  ·  Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Sustainable Development Goals

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to mobilise individuals and the role of public authorities in promoting the public good.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century.  Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming.  The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges the routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today’s problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many “illegal” local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to re-evaluate current understandings of what constitutes “good governance” in tropical forestry.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

Anthropology plays a key role in articulating people’s engagement with water and showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger impacts on regional and global ecosystems. Traversing Scales in Material Relations with Water explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture, and infrastructures.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Wolf Conflicts reveals how conflicts over land use and conservation intertwine with patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.

Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sustainable Development Goals