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The give and take of sustainability : archaeological and anthropological perspectives on tradeoffs

Hegmon, Michelle, editor

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Sustainability Social aspects Case studies. / Sustainable development Social aspects Case studies. / Applied anthropology Case studies. / Environmental archaeology Case studies.
• ISBN: 9781107078338

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HC79.E5 G547 2017	1	BOOK	BUSINESS