Environmental anthropology engaging ecotopia : bioregionalism, permaculture, and ecovillages /
In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from aroun...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
©2013.
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Colección: | Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ;
v. 17. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners- examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting t. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781299777743 1299777740 9780857458803 0857458809 |