"In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that "relocalization" of the food system will provide a range of public benefit…
In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that 'relocalization' of the food system will provide a range of public benefits…
"As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought. California is at the cutting edge of this movement, not only because its regulations actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions,…
List of Tables, Figures, and MapsAcknowledgementsContributors PrologueE. N. Anderson Introduction: Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An IntroductionJoshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto PART I: BIOREGIONALISM Chapter 1. Growing a Life-Place PoliticsPeter Berg Chapter 2.…
" ... 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 ... examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movem…
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…
"Throughout the world, more and more of policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book, drawing on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s i…
The aim of this timely work, which appears in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the late 1920s, is to bring together high quality research-based contributions from leading international scholars involved in constructing a geographical perspective on money. Topi…
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, afte…
