Political Ecology: A Critical IntroductionThis fully updated new edition introduces the core concepts, central thinkers, and major works of the burgeoning field of political ecology.
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Contents
What is Political Ecology? | 9 |
The Critical Tools | 49 |
Political Ecology Emerges | 83 |
11 | 94 |
Conceptual and Methodological Challenges | 101 |
103 | 143 |
Political Ecology | 155 |
Common terms and phrases
actors agricultural analysis approach areas argument behaviors biodiversity capitalist challenge Chapter chemical claims colonial communities complex concepts conflict conservation construction constructivism constructivist contemporary context create critical crop cultural ecology Daniel Botkin decline deforestation diversity dominant E. P. Thompson ecologists economic ecosystem efforts emerging environment environmental change example explain farmers farming field fisheries forest forestry gender geography global grasslands green revolution groups hazards household human impact implications important increasing increasingly indigenous influence insist institutions interactions kind knowledge labor land change science land cover land degradation landscape Madagascar marginal markets Miskito narratives nature non-human normative outcomes peasant political ecology populations postcolonial practices problems production progressive contextualization questions Rajasthan region relationships result rooted savanna scientific seeds Shutterstock social soil erosion species structural struggles studies subsistence suggests sustainable theory thesis things tion traditional tree urban wildlife women