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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmerer, Karl S.

Bassett, Thomas J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2003]

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Approaching Political Ecology: Society, Nature, and Scale in Human-Environment Studies / Karl S. Zimmerer, Thomas J. Bassett 1

Part I Protected Areas and Conservation

Chapter 2 Balancing Conservation with Development in Marine-Dependent Communities: Is Ecotourism an Empty Promise? / Emily H. Young 29

Chapter 3 Strategies for Authenticity and Space in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala / Juanita Sundberg 50

Part II Urban and Industrial Environments

Chapter 4 Toward a Political Ecology of Urban Environmental Risk: The Case of Guyana / Mark Pelling 73

Chapter 5 Modernity and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930 / Erik Swyngedouw 94

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, Koli Bi Zueli 115

Chapter 7 Environmental Zonation and Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Socioenvironmental Dynamics of Overlapping Patchworks and Agrobiodiversity Conservation / Karl S. Zimmerer 137

Chapter 8 Environmental Science and Social Causation in the Analysis of Sahelian Pastoralism / Matthew Turner 159

Part IV Geospatial Technologies and Knowledges

Chapter 9 Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land Cover Categorization / Paul Robbins 181

Chapter 10 GIS Representations of Nature, Political Ecology, and the Study of Land Use and Land Cover Change in South Africa / Brent McCusker, Daniel Weiner 201

Part V North-South Environmental Histories

Chapter 11 Material-Conceptual Landscape Transformation and the Emergence of the Pristine Myth in Early Colonial Mexico / Andrew Sluyter 221

Chapter 12 The Production of Nature: Colonial Recasting of the African Landscape in Serengeti National Park / Roderick P. Neumann 240

Chapter 13 Agroenvironments and Slave Strategies in the Diffusion of Rice Culture to the Americas / Judith Carney 256

Chapter 14 Future Directions in Political Ecology: Nature-Society Fusions and Scales of Interaction / Karl S. Zimmerer, Thomas J. Bassett 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572309164

OCLC:

52728954