Exploring Political Ecology

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity. Rooted in anthropology, but multidisciplinary in scope, it surveys the socio-cultural and socio-economic errors, foibles, and follies that brought us to these circumstances.

Autorentext

Alexander M. Ervin (PhD Illinois) is Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan where he taught and researched for 51 years. His specialities include environmental anthropology, socio-cultural change, and applied anthropology. He is a past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology. His books include Canadian Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology (2001), Applied Anthropology: Tools and Perspectives for Contemporary Practice (2005) and Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development, and Social Change (2015).

Inhalt

Chapter 1What is Political Ecology?; Part I: Agriculture; Chapter 2Overview of Global Food Production: Pressures to Industrialize; Chapter 3Field Crops: Grains and Soy; Chapter 4 Livestock Production; Chapter 5Who Really "Feeds a Hungry World"? Part II: Energy; **Chapter 6Coal; Chapter 7The Devil's ExcrementPetroleum; Chapter 8Hydroelectric and Irrigation Dams; Chapter 9Uranium and Nuclear Power: The Case Against; Part III: Solutions; Chapter 10Transforming our Political Economies and Dealing with the Issue of Constant Growth; Chapter 11Some Solutions in Agriculture; Chapter 12Renewable Energy Solutions; Part IV: Conclusions**; Chapter 13The Big Moral Question; Chapter 14What Might Happen Next?