Books in the New Directions in Sustainability and Society series

This book is for anyone interested in Native American studies, environmental studies, and sustainability studies who wants to learn more about contemporary and historic examples of Indigenous peoples' ethical and practical relationship to land, place, and the environment.

With concern about sustainability growing, this book focuses on the impact of status competition on growing global consumption levels. It examines how a stronger understanding of the relationships between status, consumption, and other status pursuits across time and cultural difference might help bend the curve toward a sustainable future.

This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars and advanced students in environmental studies, economics, archaeology and social theory.

For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, studying the past to understand the present in order to deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

This book is for anyone interested in Native American studies, environmental studies, and sustainability studies who wants to learn more about contemporary and historic examples of Indigenous peoples' ethical and practical relationship to land, place, and the environment.

In this book, anthropologists and archaeologists explore cases from across the world to understand tradeoffs: can we meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the future? Do some people benefit while others bear the burden? These examples will teach readers how to better wrestle with their own hard choices.

Urban sustainability has become integral to urban planning and policy making globally, but we know little about its practical consequences for everyday life, cultural change, and social justice. The contributors to this unique volume look beyond sustainability's promises and propaganda to explore its diverse human meanings and practices.

Urban sustainability has become integral to urban planning and policy making globally, but we know little about its practical consequences for everyday life, cultural change, and social justice. The contributors to this unique volume look beyond sustainability's promises and propaganda to explore its diverse human meanings and practices.