This text explores the causes, contradictions and consequences of global social-ecological change, along with the uncertainties and governance dilemmas these create. Case studies illustrate the inter-connectedness of ecosystem health, natural resource condition, livelihood security, social justice and development.
This text explores the causes, contradictions and consequences of global social-ecological change, along with the uncertainties and governance dilemma...
Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation. This book argues that neither position does justice to the range of strategies that farmers use to manage agrobiodiversity and other livelihood assets as they adapt to changing social, economic, and environmental circumstances. Chapters explore relationships between the exploitation and conservation of agricultural biodiversity and the livelihoods of agricultural communities, and...
Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics...
Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity s dependence on favourable environmental conditions. Our relationships with the landscapes and ecologies that we are a part of, the plants and animals that we share them with, and the natural resources that we extract, lie at the heart of contemporary social and political debates. It is no longer possible to understand key social scientific concerns without at the same time also understanding contemporary patterns of ecosystem change.
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Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity s depe...
