International handbook of political ecology / edited by Raymond L. Bryant, King's College London, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryant, Raymond L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Political ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (716 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The International Handbook features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, issues, debates and concepts showcasing how political ecologists today address pressing social and environmental concerns. Introductory chapters provide an overview of political ecology and the Handbook. Remaining chapters examine five broad themes: issues and approaches; governance and power; knowledge and discourse; method and scale; connections and transformations. A

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1. Political ecology: handbook topics and themes; 2. Reflecting on political ecology; PART II ISSUES AND APPROACHES; 3. Doing political ecology inside and outside the academy; 4. Encountering political ecology: epistemology and emancipation; 5. Connecting political ecology and French geography: on tropicality and radical thought; 6. Roots, rhizomes, networks and territories: reimagining pattern and power in political ecologies; 7. A time for Gramsci; 8. Integrating science and politics in political ecology

9. Postcoloniality and the North-South binary revisited: the case of India's climate politics10. Depoliticized environments and the promises of the Anthropocene; PART III GOVERNANCE AND POWER; 11. Mining in Latin America: coloniality and degradation; 12. Political forests; 13. Resources, wars and violence; 14. Benefit sharing in environmental governance: beyond hydropower in the Mekong River Basin; 15. Gender, group behavior and community forestry in South Asia; 16. Political ecologies of religious pilgrimage; 17. Governing people in depopulated areas

18. Political participation and environmental movements in China19. Understanding Fukushima: nuclear impacts, risk perceptions and organic farming in a feminist political ecology perspective; 20. Mind the gap: global truths, local complexities in emergent green initiatives; PART IV KNOWLEDGE AND DISCOURSE; 21. Disaster, degradation, dystopia; 22. Contesting hunger discourses; 23. Green governmentality; 24. Whose good living? Post-neoliberalism, the green state and subverted alternatives to development in Ecuador; 25. Assessing South Korea's Green Growth Strategy

26. NatureTM Inc.: nature as neoliberal capitalist imaginary27. The cultural politics of waterscapes; 28. Greening the job: trade unions, climate change and the political ecology of labour; 29. Eco-cities and the promise of socio-environmental justice; PART V METHOD AND SCALE; 30. Useful outsiders: building environmental policy reform dossiers; 31. Neoliberalism, scientism and Earth System Governance; 32. From 'participation' to 'negotiation': suppressing dissent in environmental conflict resolution in Brazil

33. The political ecology of colonias on the USA-Mexico border: ethnography for hidden and hard-to-reach communities34. Political ecology of scale; 35. The political ecology of weeds: a scalar approach to landscape transformations; 36. Bordering and scalar thickening in nature conservation; 37. The best of many worlds: methodological pluralism in political ecology; 38. Integrating politics and ecology through mixed methods; PART VI CONNECTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS; 39. Globalizing French écologie politique: a political necessity; 40. Jahát Jatítotòdom*: toward an indigenous political ecology

41. From ecological modernization to socially sustainable economic degrowth: lessons from ecological economics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

0-85793-617-4