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"In this provocative study, Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig argue that sustainability--the long-term ability to continue engaging in a particular activity, process, or use of natural resources with some marginal changes--is no longer a feasible goal as climate change has dramatic impacts on our world. Sustainable development, which considers environmental and natural resources in order to assure their continuing availability, has failed to stop climate change or sufficiently adjust to the demands of a rapidly changing environment. Instead the authors argue for the concept of resilience as a better guide to environmentally sound policies. Unlike sustainability, which seeks to continue what we've done in the past, resilience anticipates the need for dramatic change and focuses on adapting human systems. In light of the possibility of non-linear and sometimes irreversible change, resilience considers the degree to which we need to adjust both our ways of living and our personal and societal objectives"--Provided by publisher

Current controversies regarding uranium mining in the American West are about more than competing legal requirements; they are about competing conceptualizations of space that are grounded in different ontologies. Laws—in this case the General Mining Law of 1872 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966—play a performative role by enacting and materializing these ontologies. The occupation of New Mexico's Mt. Taylor both by 'old' and by 'new' legal forms provides an opportunity to examine their corresponding spatiality. The National Historic Preservation Act, in particular, creates an interesting 'new space' that may have the capacity to challenge Eurocentric notions of ownership.

"Resilience is the new buzz word; everyone wants resilience for themselves and their communities, economies, and environments. Benson and Craig make a case that resilience is now a necessity in environmental governance, given how much humans have already altered global environmental systems. Sustainability-about preserving a balanced status quo-is not possible, and Benson and Craig offer a competing cultural narrative of resilience that can shape how we govern the environment. In an era in which political leaders are considering eliminating the US EPA, climate change policies, and public-lands protections, this book couldn't be more timely."-Tony Arnold, Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use, University of Louisville "Benson and Craig beautifully illustrate that the capacity of society to address emerging environmental problems like climate change is directly related to our cultural narrative concerning our relation to nature. In doing so they move the dialogue from a question of tradeoffs and regulation, to one of reconciling humans and nature in a time in which we have come to dominate the planet-the Anthropocene. By offering an alternative to the polar opposite views of a doomed planet or one in which we can have it all that gridlocks U.S. political debate, Benson and Craig challenge us to take a third path that embeds a view of change and surprise in our cultural narrative through the concept of resilience."-Barbara Cosens, Professor, University of Idaho College of Law "Benson and Craig critically examine and expose the limitations of sustainability as a 20th century paradigm that is inadequate for a human dominated planet. Combining empirical examples with in a deep and broad interdisciplinary scholarship, they propose new conceptual underpinnings to guide environmental management, law and governance and management for navigating our way into