The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this book connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, giving readers a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems.

Haenn and Wilk pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists get in conflict with indigenous peoples? How can we assess the impact of "environmentally correct" businesses such as the Body Shop? They also cover the fundamental topics of population growth, large scale development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable environmental management, indigenous groups, consumption, and globalization.

1. The concept and method of cultural ecology
2. Smallholders, householders
3. Ecosystem ecology in biology and anthropology
4. Gender and the environment : a feminist political ecology perspective
5. A view from a point : ethnoecology as situated knowledge
6. The new ecological anthropology
7. Normative behavior
8. Some perspectives and implications
9. Beyond Malthus : sixteen dimensions of the population problem
10. Reproductive mishaps and Western contraception : an African challenge to fertility theory
11. Gender, population, environment
12. The environment as geopolitical threat : reading Robert Kaplan's "Coming anarchy"
13. Energy and tools
14. The growth of world urbanism
15. The anti-politics machine : "development" and bureaucratic power in Lesotho
16. Income levels and the environment
17. Staying alive : women, ecology, and development
18. Measuring up to sustainability
19. The third stage of ecological anthropology : processual approaches
20. Conflicts over development and environmental values : the international ivory trade in Zimbabwe's historical context
21. The power of environmental knowledge : ethnoecology and environmental conflicts in Mexican conservation
22. Holding ground
23. Does biodiversity exist?
24. Road kill in Cameroon
25. On environmentality : geo-power and eco-knowledge in the discourses of contemporary environmentalism
26. Radical ecology and conservation science : an Australian perspective
27. The political ecology of deforestation in Honduras
28. Peasants and global environmentalism
29. New world, new deal : a democratic approach to globalization
30. Individualism, holism, and environmental ethics
31. Cultural theory and environmentalism
32. The benefits of the commons
33. Indigenous initiatives and petroleum politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon
34. Endangered forest, endangered people : environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge
35. Tribal whaling poses new threat
36. On the importance of being tribal : tribal wisdom
37. How do we know we have global environmental problems? : science and the globalization of environmental discourse
38. The ecology of global consumer culture
39. A world without boundaries : The Body Shop's trans/national geographics
40. The invisible giant : Cargill and its transnational strategies
41. Treading lightly? : ecotourism's impact on the environment
42. Voluntary simplicity and the new global challenge