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Title
Political ecology : a critical engagement with global environmental issues / Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad.
ISBN
9783030560362 (electronic bk.)
3030560368 (electronic bk.)
9783030560355
303056035X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (260 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-56036-2 doi
Call Number
JA75.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between environmental governance in the global North and South. A wide range of carefully curated case studies are presented, with a particular focus on Africa and Norway. Key themes of power, justice and environmental sustainability run through all chapters. The authors challenge established views and leading discourses and present research findings that may surprise readers. Chapters cover topics including wildlife conservation, climate change and conflicts, land grabbing, the effects of population growth on the environment, jihadism in the African Sahel, bioprospecting, feminist political ecology, and struggles around carbon mitigation within a fossil fuel-based economy. This introductory text provides tools and examples for both undergraduate and postgraduate students to better understand on-going struggles about some of the worlds most urgent challenges. Tor A. Benjaminsen is a human geographer and Professor of Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. His research is focused on environmental change and its governance within a broad and interdisciplinary political ecology perspective. He is a lead author of the 6th IPCC report and an Associate Editor of Political Geography. Hanne Svarstad is a sociologist and Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research is about climate change mitigation, land use conflict, bioprospecting, power, environmental justice, education and alternative sustainabilities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 19, 2021).
Chapter 1. Political Ecology on Pandora
Chapter 2. Theoretical Influences and Recent Directions
Chapter 3. Discourses and Narratives on Environment and Development: The Example of Bioprospecting
Chapter 4. Conservation Discourses versus Practices
Chapter 5. Gender and Power: Feminist Political Ecologies
Chapter 6. Climate Mitigation Choices: Reducing Deforestation in the Global South versus Reducing Fossil Fuel Production at Home
Chapter 7. Pastoralists and the State
Chapter 8. Climate Change, Scarcity and Conflicts in the Sahel
Chapter 9. Population Growth, Markets and Sustainable Land-Use in Africa
Chapter 10. Stocktake and Ways Forward.
