Sustainability and Communities of Place

Carl A. Maida is a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. A medical anthropologist, he has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on health and the environment in metropolitan Los Angeles. Previous publications include Pathways Through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), Children and Disasters (Routledge, 1999), and The Crisis of Competence: Transitional Stress and the Displaced Worker (Routledge,1990).

• List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionCarl A. MaidaPART I: LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGESChapter 1. Sustainability: Where, When, for Whom? Past, Present, and Future of a Local Rural Population in a Protected Natural Area (Guaraqueçaba, Brazil)Claude Raynaut, Magda Zanoni, Angela Ferreira, and Paulo LanaChapter 2. Alaska Native Corporations and Subsistence: Paradoxical Forces in the Making of Sustainable CommunitiesThomas F. ThorntonChapter 3. Communities Out of PlaceJohanna GibsonChapter 4. “Talking About Kultura and Signing Contracts”: The Bureaucratization of the Environment on PalawanIsland (the Philippines)Dario NovellinoPART II: LOCAL PRACTICES: ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES AND STATE RESPONSESChapter 5. Does Everyone Suffer Alike? Race, Class, and Place in Hungarian EnvironmentalismKrista HarperChapter 6. Attachment Sustains: The Glue of Prepared FoodDeborah PellowChapter 7. Globalization, Local Practice, and Sustainability in the High Plains Region of the United StatesJanet E. BensonChapter 8. Quality of Life, Sustainability, and Urbanization of the Oxnard Plain, CaliforniaBarbara Yablon Maida and Carl A. MaidaPART III: SOCIAL CAPITAL, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND GLOBALIZATIONChapter 9. Linked Indicators of Sustainability Build Bridges of TrustKenneth A. MeterChapter 10. The Design of the Built Environment and Social Capital: Case Study of a Coastal Town Facing Rapid ChangesKarla CaserChapter 11. Sociomaterial Communication, Community, and Ecosustainability in the Global EraRichard WestraChapter 12. The Prospect of Sustainability in the Culture of Capitalism, Global Culture, and Globalization: A Diachronic PerspectiveSnjezana ColicGlossaryNotes on ContributorsIndex