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Title Environmental anthropology engaging ecotopia : bioregionalism, permaculture, and ecovillages / edited by Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto
Published New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 329 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 17
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 17.
Contents I. Bioregionalism -- II. Permaculture -- III. Ecovillages
Summary In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners- examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human ecology.
Ethnobiology.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnobiology
Human ecology
Humanökologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Regionalwirtschaft
Dorfgemeinschaft
Ökologische Bewegung
Lebensform
Permakultur
Form Electronic book
Author Lockyer, Joshua
Veteto, James R.
LC no. 2012032900
ISBN 9781299777743
1299777740
9780857458803
0857458809