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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

   By Arjen Y. Hoekstra

   Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
3. Water in a Dry Land

   Place-Learning Through Art and Story

   By Margaret Somerville

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Reconsidering the Bicycle

   An Anthropological Perspective on a New (Old) Thing

   By Luis Vivanco

   Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

   In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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