Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic,
environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship …

Envisioning how a desirable future might look is a long-standing effort in human evolution
and social change. Utopian thought and visions provide direction for actions and behavior; …

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant
transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic …

I Introduction Political ecology has become firmly established as a dominant field of human-
environmental research in geography. To a great extent, it has eclipsed its predecessor and …

An overwhelming percentage of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing the
global climate to change in ways that will have deleterious consequences both for the …

Anyone who thinks the world's hippest, most jaw-dropping hotels can only be found in cities
will be astounded by this photographic tour through the global countryside. As this colorful …

The term 'amenity migration'describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to
rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature …

Most of the public lands protected for conservation in the western United States are
surrounded by working landscapes of various types, typically in agro-pastoral ownership …

The dream of a house in the country, at the seashore, or near a ski hill, is one shared by
many in North American society. But the environmental and social impacts of the realization …