The give and take of sustainability : archaeological and anthropological perspectives on tradeoffs /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:New directions in sustainability and society
New directions in sustainability and society.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13583840
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Other authors / contributors:Hegmon, Michelle, editor.
ISBN:9781108168113
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 31, 2017).
Summary:"Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the perspectives of ethnography and archaeology to bear on these questions by examining case studies from around the world. Written especially for this volume, the essays by an international team of scholars offer archaeological and ethnographic examples from the southwestern United States, the Maya region of Mexico, Africa, India, and the North Atlantic, among other regions. Collectively, they explore the benefits and consequences of growth and development, the social costs of ecological sustainability, and tensions between food and military security"--
Other form:Print version: Give and take of sustainability 9781107078338