{"product_id":"the-end-of-sustainability-melinda-harm-benson-9780700625161","title":"The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene","description":"The time has come for us to collectively reexamine--and ultimately move past--the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterized by extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and unprecedented change. From a legal and policy perspective, we must face the impossibility of even defining--let alone pursuing--a goal of \"sustainability\" in such a world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig propose \u003ci\u003eresilience\u003c\/i\u003e as a more realistic and workable communitarian approach to environmental governance. American environmental and natural resources laws date to the early 1970s, when the steady-state \"Balance of Nature\" model was in vogue--a model that ecologists have long since rejected, even \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e adding the complication of climate change. In the Anthropocene, a new era in which humans are the key agent of change on the planet, these laws (and American culture more generally) need to embrace new narratives of complex ecosystems and humans' role as part of them--narratives exemplified by cultural tricksters and resilience theory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Updating Aldo Leopold's vision of nature and humanity as a single community for the Anthropocene, Benson and Craig argue that the narrative of resilience integrates humans back into the complex social and ecological system known as Earth. As such, it empowers humans to act for a better future through law and policy despite the very real challenges of climate change \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelinda Harm Benson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melinda Harm Benson, Robin Kundis Craig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 070062516X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700625161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Melinda Harm Benson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072691466495,"sku":"9780700625161","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3dc88c71-6695-4e65-aaed-b59435b97d07.jpg?v=1685443441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-end-of-sustainability-melinda-harm-benson-9780700625161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}