Political ecology : science, myth and power /
Contributor(s): Stott, Philip Anthony | Sullivan, Sian.
Publisher: London : New York : Arnold ; Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xii, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0340761652 (hb); 9780340761656:; 0340761660 (pk).Subject(s): Political ecologyDDC classification: 304.2Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Withdrawn | 304.2 STO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0050042 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? : local "facts", global discourse--"desertification" in north-west Namibia / Sian Sullivan -- Environmental myths and narratives : case studies from Zimbabwe / Deborah Potts -- Sea-level rise, subsidence and submergence : the political ecology of environmental change in the Bengal delta / Robert W. Bradnock and Patricia L. Saunders -- A political ecology of forest management : gender and silvicultural knowledge in the Jharkhand, India / Sarah Jewitt and Sanjay Kumar -- Contending environmental knowledge on water in the Middle East : global, regional and national contexts / J. Anthony Allan -- Precipitation, people, pipelines and power in southern Africa : towards a "virtual water"-based political ecology discourse / A.R. Turton -- Ecological possibilities and political constraints : adjustments of farming to protracted drought by women and men in the Western Division of The Gambia / Kathleen Baker -- Rainforest : biodiversity conservation and the political economy of international financial institutions / Korinna Horta -- Contesting the plot : environmental politics and the urban allotment garden in Britain and Japan / Richard Wiltshire, David Crouch and Ren Azuma -- Environmental refugees : the origins of a construct / Patricia L. Saunders -- Global environmental security : an emerging "concept of control"? / Jeroen Warner.
Examining the evolution of political ecology as an academic subject, and how environmental knowledge is used in the realm of global international politics, this text has a particular regard for the developing world.