| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice
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Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale; PART 1 TRANSLATING CONTENTIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE; PART 2 CONFLICTING AND SHIFTING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGES, LIVELIHOODS, AND POWER; PART 3 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS: CONTESTED (RE)SCALING OF KNOWLEDGES, PROBLEMS AND NARRATIVES; PART 4 CONTESTED PRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, LAW, AND KNOWLEDGE; PART 5 FRAUGHT SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION; Index. |
| Summary |
The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental responsibility.
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Environmental responsibility. |
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Natural resources -- Social aspects.
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Natural resources -- Social aspects. |
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Natural resources. |
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Resource-based communities.
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Resource-based communities. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Environmental policy -- Social aspects.
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Environmental policy -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Boykoff, Maxwell T.
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Evered, Kyle.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goodman, Michael K., 1969- Contentious geographies. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008 (DLC) 2007046575 |
| ISBN |
0754688119 (electronic book) |
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9780754688112 (electronic book) |
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9780754649717 (alkaline paper) |
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9780754688112 |
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0754649717 (alkaline paper) |
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