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In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors--scholar-activists and activist-practitioners-- examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for...

"The book is well structured, engaging and highly topical; it brings together a range of academics and practitioners-itself a potentially interesting and seldom examined dialogue-around three main areas which form the book's structure: Bioregionalism; Permaculture; Ecovillages." - Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth

"This is an excellent and timely collection of essays by ecological and environmental anthropologists and other scholars and activists who, together, are redefining the field of human ecology as a contribution to the cultural revolution the world needs, if we are to...