TY - BOOK
T1 - The give and take of sustainability
T2 - Archaeological and anthropological perspectives on tradeoffs
AU - Hegmon, Michelle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2017.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1017/9781139939720
DO - 10.1017/9781139939720
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85048567204
SN - 9781107078338
BT - The give and take of sustainability
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -