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Summary
Summary
In the past decade the relationship between humans and the environment has taken centre stage in the quest for development that supports both ecological integrity and sustainable livelihoods. This new Reader brings together for the first time a core selection of recently published key articles that have helped define the emerging field of 'environment and development'.The first of three sections covers the ways in which the environment and environmental change have been conceptualized or (mis)understood, with impacts for both scientific understandings of the environment and the growing importance of local environmental knowledge. The second section highlights thematic areas in the environment and development literature including the effect of population and poverty pressures on the environment, the role of key actors in environment and development and the relationship between people and natural resources. The final section addresses the critical issue of environment and development in practice and theory, including conceptual frameworks used in the field in support of sustainable development and rural livelihoods, as well as frameworks, theories and philosophies guiding research.A general introduction and section introductions provide valuable insights by defining the scope of the field and teasing out the critical debates and approaches to the myriad of cross-cutting issues in this complex growing field of study and practice. Setting the debates in the wider literature these introductions also include extensive bibliographies.This is an essential sourcebook that consolidates the core areas of the field of study for students, academics and practitioners in geography, environmental studies, development studies, economics and natural resource management.
Author Notes
Samantha Jones is a Lecturer in Sustainable Development at Northumbria University.Grace Carswell is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Sussex.
Table of Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. v |
About the Authors | p. vii |
Chapter Sources | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xv |
Section I Environmental Problems in the Tropics: Challenging the Orthodoxies | |
Introduction - Section I: Environmental Problems in the Tropics: Challenging the Orthodoxies | p. 3 |
1 False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives | p. 12 |
2 Continuities in Environmental Narratives: The Case of Kabale, Uganda, 1930-2000 | p. 32 |
Section II Themes in Environment and Development | |
IIA Causes of Environmental Change | |
Introduction - Section IIA: Causes of Environmental Change | p. 57 |
3 Population Growth and the Environment in Africa: Local Informal Institutions, the Missing Link | p. 67 |
IIB Agents and Approaches in Environment and Development | |
Introduction - Section IIB: Agents and Approaches in Environment and Development | p. 93 |
4 Environmentalists, Rubber Tappers and Empowerment: The Politics and Economics of Extractive Reserves | p. 104 |
5 After Chipko: From Environment to Region in Uttaranchal | p. 126 |
IIC Property, Institutions and Community-based Management | |
Introduction - Section IIC: Property, Institutions and Community-based Management | p. 143 |
6 Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation | p. 151 |
Section III Analytical Approaches in Environment and Development | |
IIIA Tools for Analysis | |
Introduction - Section IIIA: Tools for Analysis | p. 181 |
7 Sustainable Livelihoods in Practice: Early Applications of Concepts in Rural Areas | p. 189 |
IIIB Conceptual Frameworks in Environment and Development | |
Introduction - Section IIIB: Conceptual Frameworks in Environment and Development | p. 203 |
8 Construction Nature: Elements for a Poststructuralist Political Ecology | p. 210 |
9 From Meta-narratives to Flexible Frameworks: An Actor-level Analysis of Land Degradation in Highland Tanzania | p. 232 |
Index | p. 247 |