Political ecology: an integrative approach to geography and environment-development studies

Abstract

1. Approaching Political Ecology: Society, Nature, and Scale in Human--Environment Studies, Karl S. Zimmerer & Thomas J. Bassett Part I. Protected Areas and Conservation 2. Balancing Conservation with Development in Marine-Dependent Communities: Is Ecotourism an Empty Promise?, Emily H. Young 3. Strategies for Authenticity and Space in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala, Juanita Sundberg Part II. Urban and Industrial Environments 4. Toward a Political Ecology of Urban Environmental Risk: The Case of Guyana, Mark Pelling 5. Modernity and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890--1930, Erik Swyngedouw Part III. Ecological Analysis and Theory in Resource Management and Conservation 6. The Ivorian Savannah: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change, Thomas J. Bassett & Koli Bi Zueli 7. Environmental Zonation and Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Socioenvironmental Dynamics of Overlapping Patchworks and Agrobiodiversity Conservation, Karl S. Zimmerer 8. Environmental Science and Social Causation in the Analysis of Sahelian Pastoralism, Matthew Turner Part IV. Geospatial Technologies and Knowledges 9. Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land Cover Categorization, Paul Robbins 10. GIS Representations of Nature, Political Ecology, and the Study of Land Use and Cover Change in South Africa, Brent McCusker & Daniel Weiner Part V. North--South Environmental Histories 11. Material--Conceptual Landscape Transformation and the Emergence of the Pristine Myth in Early Colonial Mexico, Andrew Sluyter 12. The Production of Nature: Colonial Recasting of African Landscape in Serengeti National Park, Roderick P. Neumann 13. Agroenvironments and Slave Strategies in the Diffusion of Rice Culture to the Americas, Judith Carney 14. Future Directions in Political Ecology: Nature--Society Fusions and Scales of Interaction, Karl S. Zimmerer & Thomas J. Bassett Index