The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition : A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- SECTION 1. SO, WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY? -- 1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology -- 2. Smallholders, Householders -- 3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives -- 4. Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective -- 5. A View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge -- 6. Ethics Primer for University Students Intending to Become Natural Resources Managers and Administrators -- SECTION 2. WHAT DOES POPULATION HAVE TO DO WITH IT? -- 7. Ester Boserup's Theory of Agrarian Change: A Critical Review -- 8. The Benefits of the Commons -- 9. 7 Billion and Counting -- 10. Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment -- 11. Carrying Capacity's New Guise: Folk Models for Public Debate and Longitudinal Study of Environmental Change -- 12. The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's "Coming Anarchy" -- SECTION 3. WHAT ARE URBAN, RURAL, AND SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS? -- 13. The Growth of World Urbanism -- 14. Economic Growth and the Environment -- 15. Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster -- 16. The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents -- 17. Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in West Virginia, 1997-2009 -- 18. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development" and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho -- SECTION 4. HOW DOES GLOBALIZATION AFFECT ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE? -- 19. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse -- 20. Bottled Water: The Pure Commodity in the Age of Branding -- 21. Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon -- 22. Land Tenure and REDD+: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

23. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection -- SECTION 5. HOW DO IDENTITIES SHAPE ECOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES? -- 24. Cultural Theory and Environmentalism -- 25. Endangered Forests, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge -- 26. The Nature of Gender: Gender, Work, and Environment -- 27. "But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology -- 28. Bringing the Moral Economy Back in . . . to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements -- 29. How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time -- SECTION 6. CAN BIODIVERSITY BE CONSERVED? -- 30. Neoliberal Conservation: A Brief Introduction -- 31. The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation -- 32. Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective -- 33. Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Orangutans -- 34. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources: A Political Ecology Framework -- SECTION 7. IS GREEN CONSUMERISM THE ANSWER? -- 35. The Invisible Giant: Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies -- 36. Treading Lightly? Ecotourism's Impact on the Environment -- 37. What Is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement -- 38. Protecting the Environment the Natural Way: Ethical Consumption and Commodity Fetishism -- SECTION 8. OKAY, NOW WHAT? -- 39. Living Up to Our Words -- 40. Social Responsibility and the Anthropological Citizen -- 41. World Is Burning, Sky Is Falling, All Hands on Deck! Reflections on Engaged and Action-Oriented Socio-Environmental Scholarship -- 42. A Wonderfully Incomplete Bibliography of Action-Oriented Anthropology and Applied Environmental Social Science -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.

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