Robert H. Winthrop is an environmental anthropologist based in Washington, DC, with broad training in the social sciences and four decades of both practical experience and research addressing complex problems of socio-environmental systems. He has worked as a consultant, a US government social scientist, and an academic, focusing on energy and resource extraction, climate change, indigenous rights, and social impact assessment. Winthrop is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Previously he served as senior social scientist at the Bureau of Land Management, US Department of the Interior. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, and the Society for Applied Anthropology, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsFoundations 1. What More Can We Do?2. Is Climate Change an Environmental Problem?3. What Motivates Action?Applications4. Designs for Local Resilience 5. Fostering Sufficiency and Self-Reliance6. Conserving the Commons7. Tools for Conviviality8. Decentering Markets9. Strategies for Action

Robert H. Winthrop is an environmental anthropologist based in Washington, DC, with broad training in the social sciences and four decades of both practical experience and research addressing complex problems of socio-environmental systems. He has worked as a consultant, a US government social scientist, and an academic, focusing on energy and resource extraction, climate change, indigenous rights, and social impact assessment. Winthrop is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Previously he served as senior social scientist at the Bureau of Land Management, US Department of the Interior. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, and the Society for Applied Anthropology, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsFoundations 1. What More Can We Do?2. Is Climate Change an Environmental Problem?3. What Motivates Action?Applications4. Designs for Local Resilience 5. Fostering Sufficiency and Self-Reliance6. Conserving the Commons7. Tools for Conviviality8. Decentering Markets9. Strategies for Action