The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes write by Anna Grichting. This book was released on 2017-05-02. The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.
Border Landscapes
Border Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Border Landscapes write by Janet C. Sturgeon. This book was released on 2012-06-27. Border Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand, with Chinese Akha functioning as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand being viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers. The modern nation-state grapples with local power hierarchies on the periphery of the nation, with varied outcomes. Citizenship in China helps Akha better protect a fluid set of livelihood practices that confer benefits on them and their landscape. Denied such citizenship in Thailand, Akha are helpless when forests and other resources are ruthlessly claimed by the state. Drawing on current anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia and more generally on debates on property theory, states and minorities, and political ecology, Sturgeon shows how people live in a continuous state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological. This pioneering comparison of resource access and land use among historically related peoples in two nation-states will be welcomed by scholars of political ecology, environmental anthropology, ethnicity, and politics of state formation in East and Southeast Asia.
The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)
The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography) write by Dennis Rumley. This book was released on 2014-10-03. The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.
On The Border
On The Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On The Border write by Char Miller. This book was released on 2001-11-29. On The Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past 300 years, settlement patterns, geography, and climate have greatly affected the ecology of the south Texas landscape. Drawing on a variety of interests and perspectives, the contributors to On the Border probe these evolving relationships in and around San Antonio, the country's ninth-largest city.Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers required open expanses of land for agriculture and ranching, displacing indigenous inhabitants. The high poverty traditionally felt by many residents, combined with San Antonio's environment, has contributed to the development of the city's unusually complex public health dilemmas. The national drive to preserve historic landmarks and landscapes has been complicated by the blight of homogenous urban sprawl. But no issue has been more contentious than that of water, particularly in a city entirely dependent on a single aquifer in a region of little rain. Managing these environmental concerns is the chief problem facing the city in the new century.
Border Oasis
Border Oasis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Border Oasis write by Evan Ray Ward. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Border Oasis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Border Oasis tells how two very different nations developed the delta into an agricultural oasis at enormous environmental cost. Focusing on the years 1940 to 1975 - including the disastrous salinity crisis of the 1960s and 1970s - it combines Mexican, Native American, and U.S. perspectives to demonstrate that the political and diplomatic influences on the delta played as much a part in the region's transformation as did irrigation. Ward reveals how mistrust among political and economic participants has been fueled by conflict between national and local officials on both sides of the border, by Mexican nationalism, and by a mutual recognition that water is the critical ingredient for regional economic development."--BOOK JACKET.
