Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. This volume enables scholars and students quick access to both established and trending environmental anthropological explorations into theory, methodology and practice.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Development of Environmental Anthropology 1. Introduction 2. History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology 3. Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology 4. Anthropology and the Environment: Beginnings 5. Ethnoscientific implications of classification as a socio-cultural process Part 2: Investigations in sub-fields of environmental anthropology 6. Enviromateriality: Exploring the Links between Political Ecology and Material Culture Studies 7. Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction 8. Architectural Anthropology: Developing methodological framework for Indigenous wellbeing 9. Beyond "nature": Towards more engaged and care-full ways of relating to the environment Part 3: Ecological Knowledge, Belief and Sustainability 10. An Anthropology of Nature – or an Industrialist Anthropology? 11. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation 12. The Bible, Religion, and the Environment 13. What’s ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology 14. Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination 15. Anthropological Approaches to Energy Part 4: Climate Change, Resilience and Vulnerability 16. Disasters and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment 17. The Concepts of Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Anthropology of Climate Change 18. Climate, Environment and Society in Northwest Greenland 19. Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Human Adaptation, Sustainable Consumption and Environmental Governance 20. Climate change adaptation and development planning: from resilience to transformation? Part 5: Justice, ethics, and governance 21. Justice for All: inconvenient truths and reconciliation in human-non-human relations 22. Environmental Ethics and Environmental Anthropology 23. Battle of the Ecologies–Deep vs. Political: An Investigation of Anthropocentrism in the Social Sciences 24. ‘Good governance’, corruption, and forest protection: critical insights from environmental anthropology 25. Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism Part 6: Health, Population, and Environment 26. Local and organic food movements 27. Anthropocentrism and the making of Environmental Health 28. Multi-Species Entanglements, Anthropology and Environmental Health Justice 29. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Breast Cancer and Environmental Health 30. Excessive Human Numbers in a World of Finite Limits: Confronting the Threshold of Collapse Part 7: Environment and Education 31. Children’s language about the environment 32. "You have to do it": Creating Agency for Environmental Sustainability through Experiential Education 33. Cognition and cultural modeling 34. Perceiving Nature’s Personhood: Anthropological Enhancements to Environmental Education 35. Schooling the World: Land-based pedagogies and the culture of schooling