The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability)

by: Marc Brightman (Editor),Jerome Lewis (Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 1st ed. 2017

Publication Date: 2017/8/4

Language: English

Print Length: 334 pages

ISBN-10: 1137566353

ISBN-13: 9781137566355

Book Description

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 conce 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.

About the Author

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 conce 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.