Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability

Synergies and divergences
Herausgeber: Brannstrom, Christian; Vadjunec, Jacqueline M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analyzed in this innovative volume. Comprised of 11 commissioned chapters as well as introductory and concluding/synthesis chapters, it advances the two fields by proposing new conceptual and methodological approaches toward integrating land change science and political ecology. The book also identifies areas of fundamental difference and disagreement between fields. These theoretical contributions will help a generation of young researchers refine their research approaches and will advance a debate among established scholars in geography, land-use studies, and sustainability science that has been developing since the early 2000s. At an empirical level, case studies focusing on sustainable development are included from Africa, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. The specific topics addressed include tropical deforestation, swidden agriculture, mangrove forests, gender, and household issues.

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This book questions recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology, as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science. Case studies focusing on sustainable development are included from Africa, Central and South America, and South-East Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415540230
• ISBN-10: 0415540232
• Artikelnr.: 36932355

Autorenporträt

Christian Brannstrom is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, USA. Jacqueline M. Vadjunec is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Notes for Avoiding a Missed Opportunity in Sustainability
Science: Integrating Land Change Science and Political Ecology 2. The Ghost
of von Thünen Lives: A Political Ecology of the Disappearance of the
Amazonian Forest 3. Forest Transitions in Southeast Asia: Synergies and
Shortcomings in Land Change Science and Political Ecology 4. Politicizing
Land Use Change in Highland Madagascar: Struggles with Air Photo Analyses
and Conservation Agendas 5. Producing Biodiversity in Tanzania's Mangrove
Forests? A Combined Political Ecology and Ecological Resilience Approach to
"Sustainably Utilized Landscapes" 6. Gender, the Household, and Land Change
in Southeastern Mexico 7. Border Integrations: The Fusion of Political
Ecology and Land Change Science to Inform and Contest Transboundary
Integration in Amazonia 8. Political Ecology and Land Change Science in the
Study of Infrastructure Impacts: The Case of the Southwestern Amazon 9.
Deforestation and the World-as-Representation: The Maya Forest of Southern
Belize 10. Shifting Spaces and Hidden Landscapes in Rural South Africa 11.
Political Ecology, Land Change Science and the Political Economy of Nature
12. The Intersection of Independent Lies: Land Change Science and Political
Ecology 13. Two-Way Traffic across a Porous Border