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Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts.

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Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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  • Peet, Richard.
  • Watts, Michael.
  • Watts, Michael, 1951-
Description
xii, 273 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Human ecology > Developing countries > Case studies
  • Economic development > Case studies
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Liberation ecology : development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism / Richard Peet and Michael Watts -- Constructing nature : elements for a poststructural political ecology / Arturo Escobar -- Improved seeds and constructed scarcity / Lakshman Yapa -- Movements, modernizations, and markets : indigenous organizations and agrarian strategies in Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Discources on soil loss in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenviornmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Marxism, culture, and political ecology : enviornmental struggles in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands / Donald S. Moore -- Defining deforestation in Madagascar / Lucy Jarosz -- Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment : the intersection of gender with agrarian change in Gambia / Judith A. Carney -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia amd West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal, Himalayas, India / Haripriya Rangan -- The political ecology of agrarian reform in China : the case of Heilongjiang Province / Joshua S.S. Muldavin -- Conclusion : towards a theory of liberation ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet.
ISBN
  • 0415133610
  • 0415133629 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^95045381^//r97
OCLC
  • 33357755
  • SCSB-10039026
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library