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New Directions in Sustainability and Society: The Give and Take of Sustainability: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
Edited By Michelle H
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hardcover. In this book, ethnographical and archaeological perspectives on tradeoffs help the reader to think about hard choices, and how to make better decisions today and tomorrow. Editor(s): Hegmon, Michelle. Series: New Directions in Sustainability and Society. Num Pages: 316 pages, 29 b/w illus. 12 maps 9 tables. BIC Classification: HDA; HDD; HDDA; HDP; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the perspectives of ethnography and archaeology to bear on these questions by examining case studies from around the world. Written especially for this volume, the essays by an international team of scholars offer archaeological and ethnographic examples from the southwestern United States, the Maya region of Mexico, Africa, India, and the North Atlantic, among other ... Read more
Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the perspectives of ethnography and archaeology to bear on these questions by examining case studies from around the world. Written especially for this volume, the essays by an international team of scholars offer archaeological and ethnographic examples from the southwestern United States, the Maya region of Mexico, Africa, India, and the North Atlantic, among other ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Directions in Sustainability and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107078338
SKU
V9781107078338
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Ref
99-14
About Edited By Michelle H
Michelle Hegmon has dedicated her career to expanding the reach of archaeology, drawing insights from her own research in the Mimbres region of the US Southwest. She has contributed to archaeological theory, the study of style and ceramics, gender research, and social perspectives on ecology. Currently, she is developing a new paradigm, the Archaeology of the Human Experience (AHE), concerned ... Read more
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