Introduction: Anthropological explorations of incongruous perspectives in the economics of ecology, exchange, and adpatation -- Part 1: Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Regulating the Ogallala paradox and ambiguity in Western Kansas -- Contested understandings of sustainability and...

This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities. The first, concentrating on ecology, serves in part to further explore the theme of climate change. It looks into aquifer usage and ecology in the Midwestern United...

This book consists of three sections. The first, concentrating on ecology, further explores the theme of climate change. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings. Finally, papers in the third section share a concern with individual...