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Title

Political ecology : an integrative approach to geography and environment-development studies / edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett.

Publication

New York : The Guilford Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Zimmerer, Karl S.
• Bassett, Thomas J.

Description

viii, 310 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Subject

Political ecology

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1 Approaching political ecology: society, nature, and scale in human-environment studies / Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett -- Part I Protected areas and conservation -- Chapter 2 Balancing conservation with development in marine-dependent communities: is ecotourism an empty promise? / Emily H. Young -- Chapter 3 Strategies for authenticity and space in Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peteń, Guatemala / Juanita Sundberg -- Part II Urban and industrial environments -- Chapter 4 Toward a political ecology or urban environmental risk: the case of Guyana / Mark Pelling -- Chapter 5 Modernity and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930 / Erik Swyngedouw -- Part III Ecological analysis and theory in resource management and conservation -- Chapter 6 The Ivorian Savanna: global narratives and local knowledge of environmental change / Thomas J. Bassett and Koli Bi Zueĺi -- Chapter 7 Environmental zonation and mountain agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: socioenvironmental dynamics of overlapping patchworks and agrobiodiversity conservation / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Chapter 8 Environmental science and social causation in the analysis of Sahelian pastoralism / Matthew Turner -- Part IV Geospatial technologies and knowledges -- Chapter 9 Fixed categories in a portable landscape the causes and consequences of land cover categorization / Paul Robbins -- Chapter 10 GIS representations of nature, political ecology, and the study of land use and land cover change in South Africa / Brent McCusker and Daniel Weiner -- Part V North-South environmental histories -- Chapter 11 Material-conceptual landscape transformation and the emergence of pristine myth in early colonial Mexico / Andrew Sluyter -- Chapter 12 The production of nature: colonial recasting of the African landscape in Serengeti National Park / Rodericj P. Neumann -- Chapter 13 Agroenvironments and slave strategies in the diffusion of rice culture to the Americas / Judith Carney -- Chapter 14 Future directions in political ecology: nature-society fusions and scales of interaction / Karl S. Zimmrer and Thomas J. Bassett.

ISBN

1572309164 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003016121

OCLC

• 52728954
• SCSB-11393564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library