Steven Silvern

Salem State University United States of America

Dr. Steven Silvern is an Associate Professor of Geography at Salem State University where his teaching. His research interests focus on indigenous peoples, environmental sustainability, and sustainable food systems in the United States and the Middle East. He has studied and written about the complex political and cultural geographies of Native American sovereignty and hunting and fishing treaty rights. His most recent research has centered on the development of local and regional food systems in Northeastern North America. Dr. Silvern’s research has appeared in journals such as Political Geography, Historical Geography, American Indian Culture and Research Journal and recently in Food: An Atlas (2013). Dr. Silvern is the editor of The Northeastern Geographer: Journal of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (a regional division of the Association of American Geographers), an annual peer-reviewed publication. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.A. in geography from the University of Illinois-Urbana and a B.A. in biology from Clark University.

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Environments around the globe are undergoing human-induced change. Human population growth, rapid urbanization, expanding global economy, and the diffusion of western consumer lifestyles are placing increasing pressure on natural and social systems. Global institutions, nation-states, and local communities are seeking to identify and employ sustainable solutions to these environmental and socio-economic challenges. Sustainability has emerged as a policy discourse that seeks to balance the desire and need for economic growth with the protection of the environment, and the promotion of social and environmental justice. This book contributes to the study and search for sustainable responses to global environmental change. The authors of this volume explore environmental change in different places around the world and the diverse responses to such changes. The chapters demonstrate the need for place-specific sustainable development; the authors suggest the need to see sustainable responses to environmental change as a negotiated outcome between various social actors living and working in diverse spatial, environmental and socio-economic contexts. Environmental Change and Sustainability is a timely international examination of the relationship between environmental change and sustainability. As an InTech open source volume, current and cutting edge research methodologies and research results are quickly published for the academic policy-making communities. Dimensions of environmental change and sustainability explored in this volume include: Natural science approaches to study of environmental change Importance of perception in human understanding of environmental change Role of external events and institutions in shaping sustainable responses to environmental change Importance of bottom-up sustainable development as key to reducing environmental risk and community vulnerability The need for place-based sustainable development that combines local conditions with global processes Creation of a sustainable development model that synthesizes local, traditional knowledge of the environment and environmental management with the techniques and understandings generated by modern environmental science

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