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Rural development, when it has been conceived of as a science at all, has generally been conceived of as a quantitative science. Numbers are used to establish the baseline of the population at issue, to plan changes in the population and to measure the impact of success of these changes. The authors argue that this confident quantification led to critical weaknesses in much of the past and present work in development. They propose an alternative research methodology supported by case material from a study of rural development in Central Java

Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Praise for Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Environmental Communication -- Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication -- Mapping the Contribution -- The Chapters -- Final Note -- References -- Dancing with Lava: Indigenous Interactions with an Active Volcano in Arizona -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Previous Research -- Southern Paiute Epistemology -- Use of the Uinkaret Volcanic Field Before the Little Springs Event (17,000 B.P. to A.D. 1075) -- Little Springs Volcanic Event and the Southern Paiute Response -- Post-Eruption: The Initial Southern Paiute Response -- Post-Eruption Ceremonies: Little Springs Pilgrimage -- Hot Spring at the Northern Lobe of the Little Springs Lava Flow: Unuvats -- The Northern Lobe of the Little Springs Lava Flow -- Coyote's House -- Discussion: Navigating the Epistemological Divide -- References -- Arsenic Fields: Community Understandings of Risk, Place, and Landscape -- Introduction -- Contaminated Places and Communities -- The Contaminated Riddarhyttan Copper Fields -- Communication of Environmental Risk -- Local Community Perspectives -- Risk Communication in Riddarhyttan -- Landscape, Place, Risk, and Memories -- By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Cultural Transmission in Slovak Mountain Regions: Local Knowledge as Symbolic Argumentation -- Introduction -- Traditional Ecological Knowledge as an Adaptation Process -- Methods -- Mountains and Vrchári -- Land Abandonment as Loss of Cultural and Natural Diversity -- Anthropological Arguments for the Continuity of Generational Transmission -- Argument 1: The Floating TEK Gap -- Argument 2: The Three-Generation Model Family -- The Example of the Ilčík Family.

In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America – the paradoxes and the plurality of meanings associated with the creation of sustainable futures are explored. The book focuses on how communication practices collide with organizational frameworks, customary practices, livelihoods, and landscape. In so doing, the authors explore the meanings of environmental communication, pushing beyond environmental advocacy rhetoric to emphasize stronger anthropological engagement within communities to achieve more impactful environmental communication practice. Empirically the book's chapters explore a diverse set of issues, ranging from coastal management in the European north to Native American place naming in Alaska. They further share findings from studies of contaminated land remediation in Sweden, conflicts over water resources in Chile, management of heritage and national parks in Northern Arizona, and cultural transmission in Slovakia. This is an open access book.

Introduction -- Dancing with Lava: Indigenous Interactions with an Active Volcano in Arizona -- Arsenic Fields: Community Understandings of Risk, Place, and Landscape -- Cultural Transmission in Slovak Mountain Regions: Local Knowledge as Symbolic Argumentation -- Community Voices, Practices, and Memories in Environmental Communication: Iliamna Lake Yup'ik Place Names, Alaska -- Demographic Change and Local Community Sustainability: Heritagization of Land Abandonment Symbols -- Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication -- "The Sea Has No Boundaries": Collaboration and Communication Between Actors in Coastal Planning on the Swedish West Coast -- Power, Conflicts, and Environmental Communication in the Struggles for Water Justice in Rural Chile: Insights from the Epistemologies of the South and the Anthropology of Power -- Commentary. .

This article examines different ontologies of land in settler colonialism and Indigenous movements for decolonization and environmental justice. Settler ontologies of land operate by occluding other modes of perceiving, representing, and experiencing land. Indigenous ontologies of land are commonly oriented around relationality and reciprocal obligations among humans and the other-than-human. Drawing together scholarship from literatures in political economy, political ecology, Indigenous studies, and post-humanism, we synthesize an approach to thinking with land to understand structures of dispossession and the possibilities for Indigenous revitalization through ontological hybridity. Using two different case studies—plantation development in Indonesia and land revitalization in the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Nation—we further develop how settler and Indigenous ontologies operate on the ground, illuminating the coexistence of multiple ontologies of land. Given the centrality of land in settler colonialism, hybrid ontologies are important to Indigenous movements seeking to simultaneously strengthen sovereignty over territory and revitalize land-based practices.

Our brief overview of developments in environmental anthropology since 1980 and their antecedents is organized around three themes: systems ecology, political ecology, and cognitive science. In some areas, the context is familiar. As Latour recently observed, the intellectual themes captured by the emergent concept of the Anthropocene have long been familiar to anthropologists. After decades of research on human–environmental interactions, anthropology, and more particularly environmental anthropology, suddenly finds itself pushed into prominence. A vibrant and kaleidoscopic research agenda has ensued and borrows extensively from other disciplines. This agenda coincides with increased interest in coupled human and natural systems from both the social and the natural sciences. Such attention is not solely the product of academic integration or the analytical reflection of empirical realities; it also stems from growing concern over the role of humans in the global transformation of the environment.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword: The Malay Archipelago Revisited by Michael R. Dove -- Preface -- 1. Models of Change -- A point of departure -- The origins of order -- A clock that keeps good time -- Neutral drift -- Nonlinear systems -- Triggers for nonlinear transitions -- Complex adaptive systems -- Discovering islands of order -- Conclusion -- 2. Discovering Austronesia -- Introduction -- Dubois' remarkable discovery -- The first migration of modern humans -- The second migration: Austronesians -- Surprises in the data -- The toolkits: Population genetics and kinship -- The implications of matrilocality -- First model: Sex bias and language replacement -- Why the barrier in Wallacea? -- Second model: Demographic skew -- Generations of butterfly effects -- Conclusion -- 3. Dominance, Selection, and Neutrality -- Introduction -- Selection for dominance? -- The meek shall inherit. . . -- Neutral tests and the neutral theory: From genetics to ecology -- Transience and time scales: Baby names -- Transience and time scales: Potsherds and archaeology -- Conclusion -- 4. Language and Kinship in Deep Time -- Return to Wehali -- Cophylogenies of languages and genes -- The implications of host switching -- Kinship and language transmission -- Language and kinship in deep time -- Zooming in to the community scale -- Conclusion -- 5. Islands of Cooperation -- Prelude: How Bali became Bali -- Introduction -- Terracing volcanoes -- Ecology of the rice terraces -- A cooperation game -- Testing the game-theoretical model -- An agent-based model of the coupled system -- Conclusion -- 6. Adaptive Self-Organized Criticality -- Mosaics and power laws -- Universal Bali: A lattice model -- Results of the lattice model -- Comparison with satellite imagery -- Why power laws? -- Conclusion -- 7. Transition Paths -- Introduction.