Drylands Facing Change

Interventions, Investments and Identities
Herausgeber: García, Angela Kronenburg; Dijk, Han van; Haller, Tobias

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781032005089
• ISBN-10: 1032005084
• Artikelnr.: 65611443

Autorenporträt

Angela Kronenburg García is an F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLouvain, Belgium, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. Tobias Haller is a Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Han van Dijk is a Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Cyrus Samimi is a Professor of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he also serves as Vice Dean of Digital Solutions in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple. Jeroen Warner is a Senior Associate Professor of Crisis and Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change PART 1: CLIMATE,
ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES 2. Climate variability and institutional
flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological
instability and mobility in drylands 3. Environmental crisis narratives in
drylands PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER 4. Wetlands in
drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and
mining in Africa 5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands:
Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate 6. The 'open cut' in
drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering
industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing 7.
Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to
disenchantments 8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation:
Conserving drylands with or without people PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION,
AND LIVELIHOODS 9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity,
jihadism, and violent extremism 10. Making cities in drylands: Migration,
livelihoods, and policy 11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and
changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies PART 4: RESPONSES
AND POTENTIALS 12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative
research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands 13.
Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in
drylands