This book presents a selection of major research texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology. A global intellectual leader on culture, social development, sustainability, women's studies and indigenous groups, her texts provide both an outlook on the evolution of specific social scientific concepts and historical debates and a long-term and meta-analytical perspective integrating academic and policy discussions. By linking debates from different fields, the book helps readers to understand why people and groups make the choices they make and how the principles of social life must change to meet the challenges that new generations face in building social sustainability and effective environmental management in the twenty-first century.

Major research texts on how social development is related to international migrations, women's roles in society, population trends, use of natural resources and social dimensions of sustainability Multidisciplinary and historically situated overview of the evolution of scientific debates and an integrated vision from a meta-analytical perspective Links academic research and international scientific policy debates Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
From the Contents: Part I Migration and Development.- The World in Becoming a More Dangerous Place: Culture and Identity among Mexican Migrants in the US.- Part II Women and Development.- Women Moving Across Boundaries: Movements and Migrations.- Part III Social Development.