UID:
almahu_9949383617202882
Format:
1 online resource (65 pages)
ISBN:
9780429851360
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0429851367
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9780429456312
,
042945631X
,
9780429851353
,
0429851359
,
9780429851346
,
0429851340
Series Statement:
Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability Ser.
Content:
By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. "Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace "development" as a way of describing policies that go beyond the concept of increasing commercial production or making monetary profits from enterprises. By focusing on topical case histories on agricultural activity, stock-keeping, cash cropping, mining, and renewable energy, the authors highlight how ethnographic studies can and should inform policy decisions at both local and global levels. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of applied anthropology, sociology, and development studies.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Conceptual orientations; Chapter 2 Perceptions and practices in Papua New Guinea: the Duna case; Chapter 3 Arguments about the commons; Chapter 4 Traditional conservation and cash-cropping in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 5 Mining and its effects in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 6 Energy; Chapter 7 Farming, sustainability, and kinship; Chapter 8 The ends of sustainability; References; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stewart, Pamela J. Sustainability, Conservation and Creativity : Ethnographic Learning from Small-Scale Practices. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 ISBN 9781138315433
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429456312
