Title The give and take of sustainability : archaeological and anthropological perspectives on tradeoffs / edited by Michelle Hegmon

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series New directions in sustainability and society New directions in sustainability and society. Contents Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Contributors ; Preface ; 1 Introduction: Multiple Perspectives on Tradeoffs ; Definition The Importance (and Difficulty) of Recognizing Tradeoffs The Power of Words ; The Temporal Dimension ; Social and Spatial Scales ; Analysis: Making Tradeoffs Less Difficult ; Perspective and Values ; Conclusions: Moving on to the Volume ; References 2 Diversity, Reciprocity, and the Emergence of Equity-Inequity Tradeoffs Background: The Northern Frontier and Tradeoffs ; A Model of Specialization and Exchange ; The Agricultural Component ; The Social Component ; Methods of Analysis ; Our Experiments Experiment 1: Balanced Reciprocity Experiment 2: Unbalanced Reciprocity ; Discussion and Conclusion ; So What? ; Zooming Out: Types of Tradeoffs ; Full Circle ; Acknowledgments ; References 3 Modeling Tradeoffs in a Rural Alaska Mixed Economy: Hunting, Working, and Sharing in the Face of Economic and Ecological Change Background to Mixed Economies ; Sharing Norms ; Household Employment ; Ecological Change ; Methods: The Rural Alaska Social-Ecological Model (RASEM) Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 31, 2017) Subject Sustainability -- Social aspects -- Case studies Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Case studies Applied anthropology -- Case studies Environmental archaeology -- Case studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. Applied anthropology Environmental archaeology Sustainable development -- Social aspects Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Hegmon, Michelle, editor. ISBN 9781108168113 1108168116 1108167888 9781108167888 9781139939720 1139939726 1107435250 9781107435254

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