Political Ecologies Of Landscape

Author : Laura E. Taylor,Patrick T. Hurley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319294629

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A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia by Laura E. Taylor,Patrick T. Hurley Pdf

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, and agriculture), we explore how changing landscapes are planned and designed not to be urban, that is, to look, function, and feel different from cities and suburbs in spite of new home development and real estate speculation. The book’s authors contend that exurbia is defined by the persistence of rural economies, the conservation of rural character, and protection of natural ecological systems, all of which are critical components of the contentious local politics that seek to limit growth. Comparative political ecology is used as an organizing concept throughout the book to describe the nature of exurban areas in the U.S. and Australia, although exurbs are common to many countries. The essays each describe distinctive case studies, with each chapter using the key concepts of competing rural capitalisms and uneven environmental management to describe the politics of exurban change. This systematic analysis makes the processes of exurban change easier to see and understand. Based on these case studies, seven characteristics of exurban places are identified: rural character, access, local economic change, ideologies of nature, changes in land management, coalition-building, and land-use planning. This book will be of interest to those who study planning, conservation, and land development issues, especially in areas of high natural amenity or environmental value. There is no political ecology book quite like this—neither one solely focused on cases from the developed world (in this case the United States and Australia), nor one that specifically harnesses different case studies from multiple areas to develop a central organizing perspective of landscape change.

Author : Connolly, Creighton
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529214161

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Political Ecologies of Landscape by Connolly, Creighton Pdf

Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.

Author : Karl S. Zimmerer,Thomas J. Bassett
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1572309164

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Political Ecology by Karl S. Zimmerer,Thomas J. Bassett Pdf

This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South. Twelve carefully selected case studies demonstrate how contemporary geographical theories and methods can contribute to understanding key environment-and-development issues and working toward effective policies. Topics addressed include water and biodiversity resources, urban and national resource planning, scientific concepts of resource management, and ideas of nature and conservation in the context of globalization. Giving particular attention to evolving conceptions of nature-society interaction and geographical scale, an introduction and conclusion by the editors provide a clear analytical focus for the volume and summarize important developments and debates in the field.

Author : James L. Jr Wescoat,Douglas M. Johnston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402058493

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Political Economies of Landscape Change by James L. Jr Wescoat,Douglas M. Johnston Pdf

This hugely important and timely work asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. It explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broad readership of landscape architects, geographers, and related fields of social and environmental research.

Author : L. Anders Sandberg,Adrina Bardekjian,Sadia Butt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134687633

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Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace by L. Anders Sandberg,Adrina Bardekjian,Sadia Butt Pdf

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city. Their study is not only a question of the growth and conservation of green spaces, but also has social, cultural and psychological dimensions. This book brings a perspective of political ecology to the complexities of urban trees and forests through three themes: human agency in urban forests and greenspace; arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape; and actions and interventions in the urban forest. Contributors include leading authorities from North America and Europe from a range of disciplines, including forestry, ecology, geography, landscape design, municipal planning, environmental policy and environmental history.

Author : Sarmistha Pattanaik,Amrita Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000822588

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Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India by Sarmistha Pattanaik,Amrita Sen Pdf

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It explores broadly, landscape-based analyses of political, economic and social issues, which impact environmental changes, challenges and conflicts at local and micro-local levels. The chapters in this volume examine the intervention of different stakeholders in the management of various regional ecological landscapes in India, including forests, rivers, canals, creeks and wetlands. The volume is an interdisciplinary endeavour, weaving together contextual narratives through a combination of approaches from sociology, anthropology, geography, political studies and environmental history. Using such core approaches, the book studies the place-based dynamisms within the regional environmental conflicts in the selected conservation landscapes. It provides empirical reflections on transboundary issues, rural-urban transitions, middle-class environmentalism, identity conflicts, decentralized natural resource management and the role of political institutions. Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Ecology and South Asian Environmental Studies.

Author : Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191515132

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The Nature of the State by Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones Pdf

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized. Despite their combined significance, however, the complex relationships that exist between modern states and nature remain under-theorized and are relatively unexplored. Through a detailed study of different sites, moments, and framing strategies The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which geographers and social scientists approach the study of state-nature relations. The authors analyse different instances of state-nature interaction from all over the world, considering the geo-politics of resource conflicts, the operation of natural history museums, the organizational practices of environmental departments and ministries, the regulation of genetic science, and contemporary forms of state intervention within issues of climate change. Introducing original research into the different institutional, spatial, and temporal strategies used by states to frame the natural world this book provides a critical overview of the latest political and ecological theories and addresses a wide range of pressing socio-environmental debates.

Author : E N Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315432472

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Caring for Place by E N Anderson Pdf

How can cultural forms motivate people to care about their environment? While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors. Marshaling decades of research on cultures across several continents, he shows how societies have been more or less successful in sustainably managing their environments based on collective engagements such as religion, art, song, myth, and story. This provocative and deeply felt book by a leading writer and scholar in human ecology and anthropology will be read and debated widely for years to come.

Author : Lecturer in Human Geography Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Mark Whitehead,Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199271894

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The Nature of the State by Lecturer in Human Geography Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Mark Whitehead,Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones Pdf

The complex relationships between the state and nature remain under-theorized and relatively unexplored. Combining original research and theoretical insights The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which social scientists approach questions of socio-environmental power and offers new insights into the history of state-nature relations.

Author : Gary W. Barrett,Terry L. Barrett,Jianguo Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493922758

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History of Landscape Ecology in the United States by Gary W. Barrett,Terry L. Barrett,Jianguo Wu Pdf

This book describes the emergence of landscape ecology, its current status as a new integrative science, and how distinguished scholars in the field of landscape ecology view the future regarding new challenges and career opportunities. Over the past thirty years, landscape ecology has utilized development in technology and methodology (e.g., satellites, GIS, and systems technologists) to monitor large temporal-spatial scale events and phenomena. These events include changes in vegetative cover and composition due to both natural disturbance and human cause—changes that have academic, economic, political, and social manifestations. There is little doubt, due to the temporal-spatial scale of this integrative science, that scholars in fields of study ranging from anthropology to urban ecology will desire to compare their fields with landscape ecology during this intellectually and technologically fertile time. History of Landscape Ecology in the United States brings to light the vital role that landscape ecologists will play in the future as the human population continues to increase and fragment the natural environment. Landscape ecology is known as a synthesized intersection of disciplines; but new theories, concepts, and principles have emerged that form the foundation of a new transdiscipline.

Author : Martin Locret-Collet,Simon Springer,Jennifer Mateer,Maleea Acker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538159156

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Inhabiting the Earth by Martin Locret-Collet,Simon Springer,Jennifer Mateer,Maleea Acker Pdf

Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology, environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics.

Author : Ángel Paniagua Mazorra,Ángel Paniagua,Raymond L. Bryant,Thanasēs Kizos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8492582774

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The Political Ecology of Depopulation by Ángel Paniagua Mazorra,Ángel Paniagua,Raymond L. Bryant,Thanasēs Kizos Pdf

Author : N Thomas Håkansson,Mats Widgren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315425689

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Landesque Capital by N Thomas Håkansson,Mats Widgren Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.

Author : Zev Naveh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402044229

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Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology - An Anthology by Zev Naveh Pdf

Capitalizing on forty years of intensive ecological studies, this anthology presents a collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical Mediterranean, global environmental and landscape issues. Each chapter features a comprehensive study of ecological and landscape issues, synthesized in the introduction, and woven with autobiographical experiences. The concluding chapter calls for a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental scientific fields and particularly in landscape and restoration ecology, to cope with the complex, closely interwoven ecological, socio-economical, political and cultural crises facing human society during the present crucial transition from the industrial to the post-industrial, global information age. Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer book on Landscape Theory and Applications by the author and Lieberman (1994), this is a unique transdisciplinary attempt based on advanced systems complexity theories, which link the natural and human sciences.

Author : Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317108184

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Landscape, Race and Memory by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly Pdf

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Whilst the relationships between the political value of landscape and national memory have previously been written through, there has been little mention of postcolonial, 'diasporic' racialized citizens. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. It uses memory to examine how postcolonial citizenship in Britain is experienced - through remembered citizenships of 'other' geographies abroad. By reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, the book reveals social-historical narratives about migration, citizenship and belonging. New spaces of memory are presented as mobile and as politically charged with meaning as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book offers a refiguring of race memory as being critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on memory, race and landscape.