Programs in Anthropology are proud to announce the release of Professor Keri Vacanti Brondo's new book, Culture, Nature, and Environmental Sustainability: An Anthropological Introduction. Dr. Brondo co-authored the book with Luis A. Vivanco, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Vermont.

Environmental anthropology offers powerful tools for making sense of today’s pressing sustainability challenges, from climate change and biodiversity loss to environmental injustice and resource conflicts. Culture, Nature, and Environmental Sustainability: An Anthropological Introduction is a comprehensive, inclusive, and problem-centered guide to understanding the cultural, political, and ecological dimensions of these issues. Grounded in over a century of ethnographic inquiry, this volume examines how human communities engage with their environments—revealing that concepts such as “sustainability,” “Anthropocene,” and “environmental justice” are not only complex but also shaped by histories, power relations, and cultural perspectives.

Keri Vacanti Brondo and Luis A. Vivanco integrate diverse voices into a field often dominated by Euro-American perspectives, including Indigenous, Global South, and feminist scholarship. Each chapter begins with a pressing environmental problem and develops the analytical questions, theoretical insights, and case studies necessary to explore it. The authors address a wide range of contemporary themes, such climate, water, food systems, conservation, and multispecies relations, to equip readers to think critically, work across disciplines, and engage constructively with the complex realities of sustaining human and ecological wellbeing

Culture, Nature, and Environmental Sustainability: An Anthropological Introduction is now available here.