TY - BOOK
T1 - Environmental anthropology
T2 - Future directions
A2 - Kopnina, Helen
A2 - Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor
PY - 2013/7/5
Y1 - 2013/7/5
N2 - This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of “natural resources” in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of “nature,” and “wilderness” beyond the label of “ecosystem services.” By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. it is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.
AB - This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of “natural resources” in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of “nature,” and “wilderness” beyond the label of “ecosystem services.” By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. it is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84917348471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203403341
DO - 10.4324/9780203403341
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84917348471
SN - 9780415517485
T3 - Routledge Studies in Anthropology
BT - Environmental anthropology
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - New York
ER -