People and Nature

<p>Now updated and expanded, <i>People and Nature</i> is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.</p> <ul> <li>Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studies</li> <li>Addresses 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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Discusses the challenges in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to the environment</li> <li>Offers 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</li> </ul>