Sustainability on Campus - Stories and Strategies for Change

Klappentext Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus. Zusammenfassung Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.

About the author

Peggy F. Barlett is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She received a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College (1969) and the PhD in anthropology at Columbia University (1975). A cultural anthropologist specializing in agricultural systems and sustainable development, she carried out fieldwork in economic anthropology in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and rural Georgia (USA). Earlier work focused on farmer decision making, rural social change, and industrial agriculture. She has published Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community (1982, Rutgers University Press), American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis (1993, University of North Carolina Press) and is editor of Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development (1980, Academic Press).Recently, interests in the challenge of sustainability in urban Atlanta have given her an opportunity to return to early training in applied anthropology and to combine it with interests in political economy, group dynamics, and personal development. Part of a growing movement toward sustainability at Emory, she has focused on expanding awareness of environmental issues through curriculum development (the Piedmont Project), campus policies, and connections to place. She also has interests in local food systems and a local Watershed Alliance. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey Chase) of Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: Peggy F. Barlett, Peggy F. (EDT)/ Chase Barlett, Peggy F. (Emory University) Chase Barlett, Peggy F. Chase Barlett
• Assisted by: Peggy F. Barlett (Editor), Peggy F. (Emory University) Barlett (Editor), Geoffrey W. Chase (Editor), Geoffrey W. (Dean Chase (Editor), Robert Gottlieb (Editor), Robert (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy) Gottlieb (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2004
• EAN: 9780262524223
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52422-3
• No. of pages: 337
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Urban and Industrial Environments; Sustainability on Campus; Urban and Industrial Environments
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology