Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136262043
• Artikelnr.: 40438163

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