| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Davis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Michael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carney -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth. |
| Summary |
Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
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Human ecology. |
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Developing countries. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Peet, Richard.
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Watts, Michael, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Liberation ecologies. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2003017832 |
| ISBN |
0203235096 (electronic book) |
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9780203235096 (electronic book) |
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9780203032923 |
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0203032926 |
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0415312353 (Cloth) |
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0415312361 (Paper) |
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