Environmental Anthropology

Helen Kopnina is Researcher at The Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam.Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut.

• Introduction: Environmental Anthropology of Today and Tomorrow Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet Pathways: Reflections on the Self and Society 1. The Mundane Bicycle and the Environmental Virtues of Sustainable Urban Mobility Luis A. Vivanco 2. Requiem for Roadkill: Death and Denial on America’s Roads Jane Desmond 3. The Future of Environmental Anthropology: Bringing Smallholder Agriculture Research to the City Shiloh Moates 4. Future Directions in Environmental Anthropology: Incorporating Ethnography of Environmental Education Helen Kopnina Health, Risk Assessment and Prediction 5. Eco-Myopia Meets the Longue Durée: An Information Ecology of the Increasingly Arid Southwestern U.S.A. David Casagrande and Charles Peters 6. Sedna's Children: Inuit Elders' Perceptions of Climate Change and Food Security Ann McElroy 7. Water Wary: Understandings and Concerns about Water and Health among the Rural Poor of Louisiana Merrill Singer and Jacqueline M. Evans 8. Environmental Migration: The Future of Anthropology in Social Vulnerability, Disaster, and Discourse Elizabeth Marino Solutions-Based Research, Alternative Methodologies and Lifeways 9. Causal Explanation for Environmental Anthropologists Andrew P. Vayda 10. Possibilities for a Bioregional Anthropology Joshua Lockyer 11. Anthropologies of the Future: On the Social Performativity of (Climate) Forecasts Renzo Taddei 12. Anthropology and Environmental Policy: Joint Solutions for Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods Susan Charnley and William H. Durham

"This edited volume lives up to its name. It includes 12 essays and studies, ranging from ethnography that goes in new directions (urban residents, water pollution) to highly innovative and important theoretical pieces. Summing Up: Highly recommended." – E. N. Anderson, emeritus, University of California, Riverside, in CHOICE