num_pages: 334
description: This book compiles research from leading experts in the social behavioral and cultural dimensions of sustainability as well as local and global understandings of the concept and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living acting and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation rising social inequalities and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms. 
language: English
title: The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan