9/23/2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Averting a Global Environmental Collapse

Register Log in My Order (0) Wishlist (0)

About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search

HOME / AVERTING A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE

Averting a Global Environmental Collapse

The Role of Anthropology and Local Knowledge
Editor(s):
Thomas Reuter

Contributors:
Restu Juniah, Restu Juniah, Syaifudin Zakir, Thomas Reuter, Thomas Reuter, Sweta
Subjects Banerjee, Sophie Elixhauser, More...

Subject: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Series
RECOMMEND TITLE

Journals

Book Description Hardback

ISBN-13:
The numerous and varied indicators of environmental risks point toward the likelihood of
978-1-4438-7597-4
a systemic and catastrophic ecological failure at some point during this century. Political
Newsletter
inaction and cultural resistance, meanwhile, are even preventing the implementation of ISBN-10:
Subscribe to our already available technical solutions, which has led many experts to conclude that averting 1-4438-7597-X
newsletter: a global environmental catastrophe is, foremost, a socio-political, rather than a technical,
challenge. The World Science Union (ICSU) has recognized that knowledge of the social Date of Publication:
Enter Email Here sciences is indispensable for facilitating the major socio-cultural transformations now 01/06/2015
required, and, together with the International Social Science Council (ISSC), called for a
mainstreaming of environmental research in the social sciences at the Rio+20 Earth Pages / Size:
SUBSCRIBE
Summit. The two major international organizations in anthropology, IUAES and WCAA, 330 / A5
responded to this call by co-sponsoring a symposium on environmental change at the Price:
Manchester World Anthropology Congress, and by creating a scientific Commission for
52.99
Anthropology and Environment, which then hosted a second symposium in Chiba City,
Tokyo, in May 2014. This volume is a selection of the many papers presented by a truly
Quantity: 1
international group of experts at the two symposia. It identifies and provides case study
examples in six major research areas where anthropology an... read more
BUY NOW

VIEW EXTRACT ADD TO WISHLIST

Biography

Professor Thomas Reuter is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council at the
University of Melbournes Asia Institute. After completing his PhD at the Australian
National University in 1997, he taught at Heidelberg University in Germany, and held
post-doctoral and QE2 fellowships at Melbourne University and a senior research
fellowship at Monash University in Australia. He has served as President of the Australian
Anthropological Association (20022005) and Chair of the World Council of
Anthropological Associations (20092012), and is currently Senior Vice-President of
IUAES and a member of the executive of the ISSC and various other international
organizations. His research focuses on religion, politics, environment, food security,
globalization and social movements, primarily in Indonesia, but also globally. He has
published over 80 articles and nine books.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Registration Number: 04333775 Privacy Policy

Copyright 2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing. All rights reserved.

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/averting-a-global-environmental-collapse 1/2
9/23/2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Averting a Global Environmental Collapse

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/averting-a-global-environmental-collapse 2/2