The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment

Herausgeber: McCusker, Brent; Ramutsindela, Maano; Ahmed, Waquar

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Produktbeschreibung

The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment by showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world's scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory, "small" theory, various conceptual frameworks, and non-western and subaltern viewpoints.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9781138325661
• ISBN-10: 113832566X
• Artikelnr.: 63098913

Autorenporträt

Brent McCusker is Professor of Geography and Department Chairperson in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University, USA. He has published extensively on land use and livelihoods systems in sub-Saharan Africa. He also works with USAID on livelihood vulnerability analysis and mapping across a range of countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. Waquar Ahmed, a graduate of Clark University (Ph.D.) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (M. Phil.), is an associate professor of geography at the University of North Texas. He is the editor of the radical journal Human Geography. His research interests are in Capitalism, development-underdevelopment, state theory, foreign direct investments and social movements. His research has been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Human Geography, ACME and several other journals and edited books. Maano Ramutsindela is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has conducted research in Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, South Africa, and Tanzania focusing on transfrontier conservation, land, and regions. Patricia Solís is Associate Research Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, USA. She is the executive director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at Arizona State University, an interdisciplinary effort to link multi-sector community needs with research innovations around resilience.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Development and Environment in the 2020s Part 1:
Theoretical Approaches and Syntheses 2. Defining and Transgressing
Boundaries in Development and Environment Contexts 3. Framing Development
through Environmentalism 4. The Financialization of Nature
5.Colonialism/post-colonialism nexus: an oxymoron of coloniality and
globality 6. Ecosocialism: Historical Roots and Current Movements Part 2:
Global Development, Environment, and Resources 7. Food, digital life, and
new environment-development dynamics 8. Historic -Dialectical Aspect of
Environment and Development: An Analysis 9. Nila nunanico, the threat to
our lands 10. Is This Land Made for You and Me 11. Contesting Invisibility
of Immigrant Detention Landscapes in Texas 12. Smallholder farmers' lived
experiences of weather perturbation in Malawi 13. Terra sacer: water
infrastructure and core-periphery reconfiguration in Dallas/Fort Worth 14.
Sustainable Development: Quo Vadis Africa 15. Contrasting Climate Change
Knowledges in Colombia 16. Spaces of Environmental (In)Justice and
Accumulation by Dispossession in India 17. No Lifeboats Available:
Hurricane Harvey and Emergency Management Part 3: People and Communities
18. Challenges of the Anthropocene for protected areas and conservation in
Costa Rica 19. Archaeology and Tourism at Mesa Verde National Park: An
Environmental Justice Heritage 20. Communities and conservation: Between
two models of development 21. Circumscribing local development: the role of
community-based conservation in Tanzania 22. Understanding the relationship
among gender, space and the environment: the case of Waorani Women in
Gareno, Ecuador 23. Upgrading the Shock Theory: Female Resilience in
Reconstructing Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and María 24. Gendered
access to wetland gardens (dimba) in northern Malawi 25.The dialectic of
places 26. From Species life to Nature's outside: New Town 'Green City,'
Kolkata Part 4: Policy and Governance 27. Diaspora Within: Territoriality,
Nationality and Justice for the Indigenous community in India 28.
Rationalities of Government and Webs of Relations(hips) in the Funding and
Implementation of Sea Defense Systems in the Volta River Delta of Ghana 29.
Political ecology and policy: A case study in engagement 30. Spatial
Policymaking: Using large, public datasets to illustrate spatial patterns
of human vulnerability in Niger.