Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability: Synergies and Divergences

ISBN-13: 9781138680074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 266 str.

Christian Brannstrom; Jacqueline M. Vadjunec

Opis

Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analyzed in this innovative volume. Comprised of 11 commissioned chapters as well as introductory and concluding/synthesis chapters, it advances the two fields by proposing new conceptual and methodological approaches toward integrating land change science and political ecology.

The book also identifies areas of fundamental difference and disagreement between fields. These theoretical contributions will help a generation of young researchers refine their research approaches and will advance a debate among established scholars in geography, land-use studies, and sustainability science that has been developing since the early 2000s. At an empirical level, case studies focusing on sustainable development are included from Africa, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. The specific topics addressed include tropical deforestation, swidden agriculture, mangrove forests, gender, and household issues.

Spis treści

 Foreword  1. Notes for Avoiding a Missed Opportunity in Sustainability Science: Integrating Land Change Science and Political Ecology  2. The Ghost of von Thünen Lives: A Political Ecology of the Disappearance of the Amazonian Forest  3. Forest Transitions in Southeast Asia: Synergies and Shortcomings in Land Change Science and Political Ecology  4. Politicizing Land Use Change in Highland Madagascar: Struggles with Air Photo Analyses and Conservation Agendas  5. Producing Biodiversity in Tanzania’s Mangrove Forests? A Combined Political Ecology and Ecological Resilience Approach to "Sustainably Utilized Landscapes"  6. Gender, the Household, and Land Change in Southeastern Mexico  7. Border Integrations: The Fusion of Political Ecology and Land Change Science to Inform and Contest Transboundary Integration in Amazonia  8. Political Ecology and Land Change Science in the Study of Infrastructure Impacts: The Case of the Southwestern Amazon  9. Deforestation and the World-as-Representation: The Maya Forest of Southern Belize  10. Shifting Spaces and Hidden Landscapes in Rural South Africa  11. Political Ecology, Land Change Science and the Political Economy of Nature  12. The Intersection of Independent Lies: Land Change Science and Political Ecology  13. Two-Way Traffic across a Porous Border

O autorze

Christian Brannstrom is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, USA. 

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University, USA.