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Envisioning sustainabilities : towards an anthropology of sustainability / edited by Fiona Murphy and Pierre McDonagh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 214 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443812832
  • 1443812838
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning sustainabilities.DDC classification:
  • 301 23
LOC classification:
  • GN397.5 .E58 2016eb
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Contents:
Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: New Modalities of Sustainability; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II: Sustainability in Practice; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III: Towards an Urban Sustainability; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Afterword; Contributors
Summary: This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of 'sustainability imaginaries' in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster stud.
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Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: New Modalities of Sustainability; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II: Sustainability in Practice; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III: Towards an Urban Sustainability; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Afterword; Contributors

This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of 'sustainability imaginaries' in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster stud.

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