Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

摘要: "Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book makes welcome unique contribution. Susan Paulson Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging well-written collection that full fresh ideas applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts, methods."-Marianne Schmink, director, Tropical Conservation Development Program, University Florida ecologists are sure benefit from splendid array rigorous, richly contextualized, far-reaching accounts injects masterful blend political analysis attention the lifeworlds diverse peoples worldwide into environmental studies."-Karl Zimmerer, professor chair, Department Geography Institute for Environmental Studies, Wisconsin, Madison "An ingenious mix genealogy unfolding future ecology, bringing insights dynamics place, power, people across globe." -Dianne Rocheleau, coeditor Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues Local Experiences As issues become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, international policies, scholars paying more conventional politics broadly defined relations power difference interactions between human groups their biophysical environments. Such at heart relatively new forged intersection economy cultural ecology. This volume provides toolkit vital concepts set research models analytic frameworks researchers all levels. Pointing entangled relationship humans, politics, economies, environments dawn twenty-first century, opening chapters trace rich traditions thought practice inform approaches The twelve case studies follow explore sites located around world as they describe uses conflicts over resources including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge, information. director Latin American associate anthropology Miami University. chair department State West Georgia.