Political Ecology An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies

by Zimmerer, Karl S.; Bassett, Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9781572309166
• ISBN10: 1572309164
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-24
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South. Twelve carefully selected case studies demonstrate how contemporary geographical theories and methods can contribute to understanding key environment-and-development issues and working toward effective policies. Topics addressed include water and biodiversity resources, urban and national resource planning, scientific concepts of resource management, and ideas of nature and conservation in the context of globalization. Giving particular attention to evolving conceptions of nature-society interaction and geographical scale, an introduction and conclusion by the editors provide a clear analytical focus for the volume and summarize important developments and debates in the field.

Table of Contents

Approaching Political Ecology: Society, Nature, and Scale in Human-Environment Studies	1	(28)
Karl S. Zimmerer
Thomas J. Bassett
PART I Protected Areas and Conservation
Balancing Conservation with Development in Marine-Dependent Communities: Is Ecotourism an Empty Promise?	29	(21)
Emily H. Young
Strategies for Authenticity and Space in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala	50	(23)
Juanita Sundberg
PART II Urban and Industrial Environments
Toward a Political Ecology of Urban Environmental Risk: The Case of Guyana	73	(21)
Mark Pelling
Modernity and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930	94	(21)
Erik Swyngedouw
PART III Ecological Analysis and Theory in Resource Management and Conservation
The Ivorian Savanna: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change	115	(22)
Thomas J. Bassett
Koli Bi Zueli
Environmental Zonation and Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Socioenvironmental Dynamics of Overlapping Patchworks and Agrobiodiversity Conservation	137	(22)
Karl S. Zimmerer
Environmental Science and Social Causation in the Analysis of Sahelian Pastoralism	159	(22)
Matthew Turner
PART IV Geospatial Technologies and Knowledges
Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land Cover Categorization	181	(20)
Paul Robbins
GIS Representations of Nature, Political Ecology, and the Study of Land Use and Land Cover Change in South Africa	201	(20)
Brent McCusker
Daniel Weiner
PART V North-South Environmental Histories
Material-Conceptual Landscape Transformation and the Emergence of the Pristine Myth in Early Colonial Mexico	221	(19)
Andrew Sluyter
The Production of Nature: Colonial Recasting of the African Landscape in Serengeti National Park	240	(16)
Roderick P. Neumann
Agroenvironments and Slave Strategies in the Diffusion of Rice Culture to the Americas	256	(18)
Judith Carney
Future Directions in Political Ecology: Nature-Society Fusions and Scales of Interaction	274	(23)
Karl S. Zimmerer
Thomas J. Bassett
Index	297	(10)
About the Editors	307	(2)
Contributors	309