Product Description

This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are percieved and interpreted, both by local communities and within the global arena.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1852610 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
." . . Milton advances a theoretical standard for a cultural ecology enmeshed in questions of environmental degradation. . . . Milton's book is important because she refuses to give up the search for explanatory theories in the face of intractable environmental problems.."
-"American Anthropologist

From the Back Cover
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientists. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary global arena.