{"product_id":"people-and-nature-isbn-9781118877470","title":"People and Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow updated and expanded, \u003ci\u003ePeople and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses new issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the rise of the slow food and farm-to-table movements, and consumer-driven shifts in sustainability\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important research, at a level appropriate for readers coming to the topic for the first time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the challenges in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to the environment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a powerful, hopeful future vision for improved relations between humans and nature that embraces the idea of community needs rather than consumption wants, and the importance of building trust as a foundation for a sustainable future\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Human Agency and the State of the Earth 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan One Conceive of Ecosystems Without Human Agents? 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Agency: Individuals Making a Difference 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverwhelming Evidence for Concern with the Condition of the Earth System 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking Back and Looking Forward 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 A Reminder: How Things Were… 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Study of Human Ecological Relations 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contemporary Study of Environmental Issues: The Rise of Cross-Disciplinary Team-Based Approaches 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Human–Environment Interactions 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHunter-Gatherers: Setting Our Preferences 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Did We Decide to Become Farmers? 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerding and Farming: An Uneasy Relationship 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Food for the Masses 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Great Forgetting 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarth Transformations in Prehistory 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Archeology of Environmental Change 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban–Industrial Revolution and the Unleashing of Prometheus 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contemporary Situation: Human-Dominated Ecosystems 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Web of Life: Are We in it? 96\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Web of Life and Trophic Relations: Thinking Ecologically 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Productivity and Net Primary Production 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLand Use and Long-Term Disturbance 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 What Makes People Do That? 122\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning, Adaptation, and Information 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMitigation and the Cautionary Principle 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the Face of the Earth: Making Better Decisions 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Population and Environment 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories about Population 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Demographic Transition 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAging and International Flows of Labor 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddressing the Needs of 10 Billion People 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging the Population and Environment Nexus 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Rebuilding Communities and Institutions 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity in Human Evolution 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Sacred in Human Evolution? 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTragedies of the Commons 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutions and Self]Organization 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBioregionalism, Deep Ecology, and Embedding People in Nature 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Can We Learn When We Have Enough? 188\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial Boys and Material Girls 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Consumption in Developed Countries 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Consumption in Developing Countries 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Feeding Frenzy and a Crisis in Public Health 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBurning Fossil Fuels instead of Calories 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo We Have Enough Material Goods Now? 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Resources 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Quality of Life: When Less is More 210\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResource Abundance versus Resource Scarcity 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Less is More 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scale of the Problem and the Scale of the Solution 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestoring Our Balance: Valuing Community and Trust 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre We Happier When We Have More? 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eEmilio F. Moran\u003c\/b\u003e is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor at the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, the Center for System Integration and Sustainability, and the Department of Geography at Michigan State University, USA.  Until 2012, he was Distinguished Professor and the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of ten books, fifteen edited volumes, and more than 190 journal articles and book chapters, which address human interaction with the environment under conditions of change. Most recently, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Social Science: Human-Environment Interactions and Sustainability\u003c\/i\u003e(Wiley Blackwell, 2010). He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. \u003cp\u003eNow updated and expanded, \u003ci\u003ePeople and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology written by a respected scholar in the field. Concise yet multi-disciplinary, it focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world and brings together insights from a range of fields, including geography, ecology, and environmental studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs with the first edition, it explains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important research, at a level appropriate for readers coming to the topic for the first time. It also addresses new and evolving issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the rise of the slow food and farm-to-table movements, and consumer-driven shifts in sustainability. The author uses examples—both historical and contemporary—to bring the narrative to life and imbue it with the sense of urgency it deserves. He discusses the challenges we face in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to our environment. In doing so, he offers a powerful and hopeful vision for the future in which improved relations between humans and nature allow us to embrace the idea of community needs rather than consumption wants, and the importance of building trust as a foundation for a sustainable future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExceedingly welcome, highly readable and very much up to date, People and Nature plumbs the complex environmental challenge we have created, but also lights the ways forward to reconciliation between humanity and the environment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas E. Lovejoy,\u003c\/b\u003e George Mason University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses the reciprocal interactions between people and nature, highlighting the current urgency of many global situations … there are no truly global solutions, instead, the author discusses the large variety of possible pathways and strategies we, as a society, can take to achieve sustainability. The second edition adds and expands discussion of the challenges to sustainability, the crisis of the growing human population, and climate change. \u003ci\u003ePeople and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e fills an ever-increasing need in addressing our current global environmental problems – tied to past, current and future societal issues and behaviors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Southworth,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Florida\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989759705317,"sku":"NP9781118877470","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118877470.jpg?v=1761785380","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/people-and-nature-isbn-9781118877470","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}