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Confronting Environments
James G. . Ed(S): Carrier
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Description for Confronting Environments
paperback. Tackles the factors affecting people's understandings of their environment, not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and the social and cultural contexts. This book considers the impact of local events with analyses, and also evaluates the political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels. Editor(s): Carrier, James G. Series: Globalization and the Environment. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 184 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental protection regimes, with detailed analyses of local cases. They also evaluate the large-scale political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels, such as policies and bureaucratic requirements of international agencies and a country's position in global commodity markets. Their approach encourages policy makers and researchers to think about their natural and non-natural environment in novel ways. ... Read more
Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental protection regimes, with detailed analyses of local cases. They also evaluate the large-scale political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels, such as policies and bureaucratic requirements of international agencies and a country's position in global commodity markets. Their approach encourages policy makers and researchers to think about their natural and non-natural environment in novel ways. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Globalization and the Environment
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759105638
SKU
V9780759105638
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About James G. . Ed(S): Carrier
James G. Carrier is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University and Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His recent books include Occidentalism: Images of the West and Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture.
Reviews for Confronting Environments
Attentive to both thick description and general processes, exploring and critically engaging with the concepts of the local and the global, Confronting Environments represents an important moment in the revival and rethinking of environmental anthropology. Situating themselves at different ethnographic sites, the authors disentangle the 'environment' as well as the politics and abstractions frequently used to represent it. This book ... Read more