Editors: Paige West, Barnard College, Columbia University and Dan Brockington, University of Manchester
Published in association with the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. Climate change, the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, and environmental justice are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future.
As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important new peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines.
Published in association with the Earth Institute of Columbia University, Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research and policy-making audiences alike.
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Geography, Ecology
Volume 2 • 2011
Introduction: Environment, Society, and Food
Rebecca Feinberg, Paige West, and Dan Brockington
ARTICLES
Can Consumer Demand Deliver Sustainable Food? Recent Research in Sustainable Consumption Policy and Practice
Cindy Isenhour
Fair Trade and Fair Trade Certification of Food and Agricultural Commodities: Promises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities
Debarati Sen and Sarasij Majumder
Nature’s Market? A Review of Organic Certification
Shaila Seshia Galvin
Mapping the Food Movement: Addressing Inequality and Neoliberalism
Teresa Marie Mares and Alison Hope Alkon
Food Sovereignty: A New Rights Framework for Food and Nature?
Hannah Wittman
Shared Meals and Food Fights: Geographical Indications, Rural Development, and the Environment
Fabio Parasecoli and Aya Tasaki
Rethinking the Food-versus-Fuel Debate: An Appraisal of International Perspectives and Implications for the South African Industrial Biofuels Strategy
Shaun Ruysenaar
From Biotech to Nanotech: Public Debates about Technological Modification of Food
Jennifer B. Rogers-Brown, Christine Shearer, and Barbara Herr Harthorn
The “State” of Ecological Thinking in the Political Science Classroom
Joanna L. Mosser
BOOK REVIEWS
BLASER, Mario, Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
REVIEWED BY Kathleen Lowrey
HALVERSON, Anders, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
REVIEWED BY Eben Kirksey
HECKLER, Serena, Landscape, Process, and Power: Re-Evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
REVIEWED BY Julie Velásquez Runk
HELMREICH, Stefan, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
REVIEWED BY Jessica O’Reilly
HOLIFIELD, Ryan, Michael PORTER, and Gordon WALKER, eds, Spaces of Environmental Justice
REVIEWED BY Melissa Checker
LANSING, J. Stephen J, Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali
REVIEWED BY Juliana Essen
LYON, Sarah, and Mark MOBERG, eds., Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies
REVIEWED BY Rebecca Mari Meuninck
MARSH, Kevin R., Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness in the Pacific Northwest
REVIEWED BY Jason Roberts
MUSCOLINO, Micah S., Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
REVIEWED BY Yu Huang
PERRAMOND, Eric P., Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions
REVIEWED BY James H. McDonald
RINGHOFER, Lisa, Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon: On a Local Society in Transition,
REVIEWED BY Wendy R. Townsend
SCHELHAS, John, and Max J. PFEFFER, Saving Forests, Protecting People? Environmental Conservation in Central America
REVIEWED BY Robert Fletcher
TRUBEK, Amy B., The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir
REVIEWED BY Megan Tracy
VAYDA, Andrew P., Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes
REVIEWED BY E. N. Anderson
