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"Due to the growing awareness of environmental degradation and climate change, the study of human-nature relationships has gained new relevance for understanding and addressing contemporary sustainability challenges, with the aim of finding feasible solutions for the near future. Building on a long tradition of ethnographic research on the cultural and material entanglements of human communities with their natural environments, environmental anthropology offers critical theories, case studies, and solutions-oriented practices on the causes, consequences, and alternatives to current issues. Culture, Nature and Sustainability: An Anthropological Introduction provides an inclusive and pedagogically-engaging overview of this vibrant field for advanced undergraduate students in anthropology and interdisciplinary sustainability sciences. Offering a comprehensive introduction to environmental anthropology, this textbook helps students make connections between the field's concepts and the practical challenges of environmental sustainability using a problem-centered approach. Each chapter (fourteen in total) begins with a compelling issue or problem drawn from a real-life situation, which leads to the central question on one of the key themes in environmental anthropology such as environmental risk and health, industrialization of food systems and sustainable agricultural livelihoods, tourism development, politics of conservation and indigenous resource co-management, multi-species engagements, environmental media and communications, cultures of consumption. Written with students in mind Culture, Nature and Sustainability: Anthropological Perspective integrates active-learning exercises, skill-building activities and practitioner profiles. This one of its kind textbook has no precedent on the market and is an invaluable resource to explore key topics in environmental anthropology while also retracing the contributions of indigenous, non-European, and women scholars, activists, and leaders to shape anthropological knowledge of environment and sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.