Political ecology
Subtitle: science, myth and power
By: edited by Philip Stott and Sian Sullivan.
Contributors: Stott, Philip Anthony.; Sullivan, Sian.
Publisher: Arnold; Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Political ecology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? : local "facts", global discourse; title: "desertification" in north-west Namibia / Sian Sullivan; title: Environmental myths and narratives : case studies from Zimbabwe / Deborah Potts; title: Sea-level rise, subsidence and submergence : the political ecology of environmental change in the Bengal delta / Robert W. Bradnock and Patricia L. Saunders; title: A political ecology of forest management : gender and silvicultural knowledge in the Jharkhand, India / Sarah Jewitt and Sanjay Kumar; title: Contending environmental knowledge on water in the Middle East : global, regional and national contexts / J. Anthony Allan; title: Precipitation, people, pipelines and power in southern Africa : towards a "virtual water"-based political ecology discourse / A.R. Turton; title: Ecological possibilities and political constraints : adjustments of farming to protracted drought by women and men in the Western Division of The Gambia / Kathleen Baker; title: Rainforest : biodiversity conservation and the political economy of international financial institutions / Korinna Horta; title: Contesting the plot : environmental politics and the urban allotment garden in Britain and Japan / Richard Wiltshire, David Crouch and Ren Azuma; title: Environmental refugees : the origins of a construct / Patricia L. Saunders; title: Global environmental security : an emerging "concept of control"? / Jeroen Warner.