Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope - Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

Informationen zum Autor Virginia D. Nazarea is a professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. She is the author or editor of several books, including Heirloom Seeds and their Keepers: Memory and Marginality in the Conservation of Biological Diversity, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives , and Cultural Memory and Biodiversity . Robert E. Rhoades was Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and director of the Sustainable Human Ecosystems Laboratory at the University of Georgia. He authored more than 160 publications, including Listening to Mountains and Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes . Jenna E. Andrews-Swann is an assistant professor of anthropology at Georgia Gwinnett College. Klappentext Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth's population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism. This broad collection brings to the table a bag full of tools from anthropology, sociology, genetics, plant breeding, education, advocacy, and social activism. Zusammenfassung "Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth's population while conserving its natural resources! Seeds of Resistance! Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments! especially at the grass-roots level! that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism"--

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• Authors: Virginia D. (EDT)/ Rhoades Nazarea
• Assisted by: Jenna Andrews-Swann (Editor), Jenna E. Andrews-Swann (Editor), Virginia D Nazarea (Editor), Virginia D. Nazarea (Editor), Robert E Rhoades (Editor), Robert E. Rhoades (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.12.2013
• EAN: 9780816530144
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3014-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories