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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series New directions in sustainability and society
New directions in sustainability and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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)
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Subject Sustainability -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Sustainability.
Social aspects.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects.
Applied anthropology -- Case studies.
Applied anthropology.
Environmental archaeology -- Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
Environmental archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Author Hegmon, Michelle, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Give and take of sustainability 9781107078338 (DLC) 2016049299 (OCoLC)972533785
ISBN 9781108168113 (electronic book)
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9781107435254 (paperback)
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