Sustainability and Communities of Place / / ed. by Carl A. Maida.

• MitwirkendeR: Benson, Janet E.,; Caser, Karla,; Colic, Snjezana,; Ferreira, Angela,; Gibson, Johanna,; Harper, Krista,; Lana, Paulo,; Maida, Barbara Yablon,; Maida, Carl A.,; Meter, Kenneth A.,; Novellino, Dario,; Pellow, Deborah,; Raynaut, Claude,; Thornton, Thomas F.,; Westra, Richard,; Zanoni, Magda,
• HerausgeberIn: Maida, Carl A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a community, its ethos, and ways of life. Although broadly conceived, the pursuit of sustainable development is a local practice because every community has different needs and quality of life concerns. Within this framework, contributors representing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, law, public policy, architecture, and urban studies explore sustainability in communities in the Pacific, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and North America. Contributors: Janet E. Benson, Karla Caser, Snjezana Colic, Angela Ferreira, Johanna Gibson, Krista Harper, Paulo Lana, Barbara Yablon Maida, Carl A. Maida, Kenneth A. Meter, Dario Novellino, Deborah Pellow, Claude Raynaut, Thomas F. Thornton, Richard Westra, Magda Zanoni

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Local and Global Knowledges -- Sustainability: Where, When, for Whom? Past, Present, and Future of a Local Rural Population in a Protected Natural Area (Guaraqueçaba, Brazil) -- Alaska Native Corporations and Subsistence: Paradoxical Forces in the Making of Sustainable Communities -- Communities Out of Place -- “Talking About Kultura and Signing Contracts”: The Bureaucratization of the Environment on Palawan Island (the Philippines) -- Part Two: Local Practices: Adaptive Strategies and State Responses -- Does Everyone Suffer Alike? Race, Class, and Place in Hungarian Environmentalism -- Attachment Sustains: The Glue of Prepared Food -- Globalization, Local Practice, and Sustainability in the High Plains Region of the United States -- Quality of Life, Sustainability, and Urbanization of the Oxnard Plain, California -- Part Three: Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Globalization -- Linked Indicators of Sustainability Build Bridges of Trust -- The Design of the Built Environment and Social Capital: Case Study of a Coastal Town Facing Rapid Changes -- Sociomaterial Communication, Community, and Ecosustainability in the Global Era -- The Prospect of Sustainability in the Culture of Capitalism, Global Culture, and Globalization: A Diachronic Perspective -- Glossary -- Notes on Contributors -- Index