Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities

ISBN-13: 9781032005089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

García, Angela Kronenburg

Opis

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia.

Spis treści

1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change  PART 1: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES  2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands  3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands  PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER  4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and mining in Africa  5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate  6. The ‘open cut’ in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing  7. Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to disenchantments  8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation: Conserving drylands with or without people  PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION, AND LIVELIHOODS  9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism  10. Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy  11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies  PART 4: RESPONSES AND POTENTIALS  12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands  13. Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in drylands