Give and Take of Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
Redaktion: Hegmon, Michelle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 regions. Collectively, they explore the benefits and consequences of growth and development, the social costs of ecological sustainability, and tensions between food and military security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108165112
• Artikelnr.: 49047374

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Multiple perspectives on tradeoffs Michelle Hegmon; 2.
Diversity, reciprocity, and the emergence of equity-inequity tradeoffs
Jacob Freeman, Andrea Torvinen, Ben A. Nelson and John M. Anderies; 3.
Modeling tradeoffs in a rural Alaska mixed economy: hunting, working, and
sharing in the face of economic and ecological change Shauna B. BurnSilver,
Randall B. Boone, Gary P. Kofinas and Todd J. Brinkman; 4. Trading off food
and military security in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe; 5. Will
agricultural technofixes feed the world? Short- and long-term tradeoffs of
adopting high-yielding crops Amanda L. Logan; 6. Tradeoffs in precolumbian
Maya water management systems: complexity, sustainability, and cost
Christian Isendahl and Scott Heckbert; 7. Growth and inter-generational
tradeoffs: archaeological perspectives from the Mimbres region of the US
Southwest; 8. Vulnerability to food insecurity: tradeoffs and their
consequences Margaret C. Nelson, Ann P. Kinzig, Jette Arneborg, Richard
Streeter and Scott E. Ingram; 9. Tradeoffs in coast Salish social action:
balancing autonomy, inequality, and sustainability Colin Grier and Bill
Angelbeck; 10. Tradeoffs and human well-being: achieving sustainability in
the Faroe Islands Seth D. Brewington; 11. Household- vs national-scale food
storage: perspectives on food security from archaeology and contemporary
India Katherine A. Spielmann and Rimjhim M. Aggarwal; 12. Some analytical
tradeoffs of talking about tradeoffs: on perspectives lost in estimating
the costs and benefits of inequality Alf Hornborg.