Environmental Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

   Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

   By Ben Wallace

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Social Life of Climate Change Models

   Anticipating Nature

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Martin Skrydstrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Archaeology of Drylands

   Living at the Margin

   By Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson

   Series: One World Archaeology

   Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

   Edited by Arjun Guneratne

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Crisis of Waste?

   Understanding the Rubbish Society

   By Martin O'Brien

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Environmental Anthropology Today

   Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

   Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in...

   Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Perception of the Environment

   Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

   By Tim Ingold

   In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into...

   Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Campsteading (paperback direct)

   Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

   By Derek Brereton

   The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations,...

   Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Campsteading

   Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

   By Derek Brereton

   The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations,...

   Published December 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. Environmental Risks and the Media

    Edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan, Cynthia Carter

    Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly...

    Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge