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In the US South, wood-based bioenergy schemes are being promoted
and implemented through a powerful vision merging social,
environmental, and economic benefits for rural, forest-dependent
communities. While this dominant narrative has led to heavy
investment in experimental technologies and rural development, many
complexities and complications have emerged during implementation.
Forests as Fuel draws on extensive multi-sited ethnography to
ground the story of wood-based bioenergy in the biophysical,
economic, political, social, and cultural landscape of this region.
This book contextualizes energy issues within the history and
potential futures of the region's forested landscapes, highlighting
the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change and complex
racial dynamics. Eschewing simple answers, the authors illuminate
the points of friction that occur as competing visions of bioenergy
development confront each other to variously support, reshape,
contest, or reject bioenergy development. Building on recent
conceptual advances in studies of sociotechnical imaginaries,
environmental history, and energy justice, the authors present a
careful and nuanced analysis that can provide guidance for
promoting meaningful participation of local community members in
renewable energy policy and production while recognizing the
complex interplay of factors affecting its implementation in local
places.
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an
in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural
resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational
movement reveals important links between environmental management
and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by
local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been
instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model
programs; the countermapping movement and collective claims to land
and resources; legal strategies for gaining rights to resources and
territories; biodiversity conservation and land stabilization
priorities; and environmental justice and minority rights. This
book will be of value to instructors, practitioners and activists
in anthropology, cultural geography, environmental justice,
environmental policy, political ecology, indigenous rights,
conservation biology, and CBNRM.
Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across
anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of
exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and
the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent
claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these
environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that
the physical world and human societies are always inextricably
linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work
reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, social
sciences, and the humanities, and to forge working relationships
with non-academic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues
such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power
are articulated alongside practical discussions of building
partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for
implementing policy. New Directions in Environment and Anthropology
will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in
the relation between our species and its biotic and built
environments. It is also designed for classroom use in and beyond
anthropology, and students will be greatly assisted by suggested
reading lists for their further exploration of general concepts and
specific research. Learn more about the author at the University of
North Carolina Anthropology Department web pages.
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