The Earthscan reader in environment, development and rural livelihoods

Contributor(s): Jones, Samantha | Carswell, GraceMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2004Description: xxiv, 253 p. : illustrations, mapsISBN: 1844070530 (pbk.); 1844070522 (hardback)Subject(s): Sustainable development | Economic development | Rural development | Environmental policyDDC classification: 333.7 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
False forest history, complicit social analysis: rethinking some West African environmental narratives / J. Fairhead and M. Leach -- Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy / K. Homewood K and W.A. Rodgers -- Continuities in environmental narratives: the case of Kabale, Uganda, 1930-2000 / G. Carswell -- Population and environment in time perspective: the Machakos story / M. Mortimore and M. Tiffin -- Population growth and the environment in Africa: local informal institutions, the missing link / V. Mazzucato and D. Niemeijer -- Poverty and soil management -- relationships from three Honduran watersheds / H.M. Ravnborg -- Participatory conservation? Community-based natural resource management in Botswana / C. Twyman -- False prophets? Mutant NGOs and Philippine environmentalism / R. Bryant -- After Chipko: from environment to region in Utteranchal / E. Mawdsley -- Changing customary marine resources management practice and institutions: the case of Sasi Lola in the Kei Islands, Indonesia / C. Thorburn -- Enchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource management / A. Agrawal and C.C. Gibson -- The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal / R. Chambers -- Stakeholder analysis for natural resource management in developing countries: some practical guidelines for making management more participatory and effective / R. Grimble and M-K. Chan -- Sustainable livelihoods in practice: early applications of concepts in rural areas / J. Farrington [and others] -- Construction nature: elements for a post-structuralist political ecology / A. Escobar -- From meta-narratives to flexible frameworks: an actor level analysis of land degradation in highland Tanzania / S. Jones -- Environmentalists, rubber tappers and empowerment: the politics and economics of extractive reserves / K. Brown and S. Rosendo.
Summary: This work brings together a core selection of key articles published that have helped define the field of environment and development.
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False forest history, complicit social analysis: rethinking some West African environmental narratives / J. Fairhead and M. Leach --
Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy / K. Homewood K and W.A. Rodgers --
Continuities in environmental narratives: the case of Kabale, Uganda, 1930-2000 / G. Carswell --
Population and environment in time perspective: the Machakos story / M. Mortimore and M. Tiffin --
Population growth and the environment in Africa: local informal institutions, the missing link / V. Mazzucato and D. Niemeijer --
Poverty and soil management --
relationships from three Honduran watersheds / H.M. Ravnborg --
Participatory conservation? Community-based natural resource management in Botswana / C. Twyman --
False prophets? Mutant NGOs and Philippine environmentalism / R. Bryant --
After Chipko: from environment to region in Utteranchal / E. Mawdsley --
Changing customary marine resources management practice and institutions: the case of Sasi Lola in the Kei Islands, Indonesia / C. Thorburn --
Enchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource management / A. Agrawal and C.C. Gibson --
The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal / R. Chambers --
Stakeholder analysis for natural resource management in developing countries: some practical guidelines for making management more participatory and effective / R. Grimble and M-K. Chan --
Sustainable livelihoods in practice: early applications of concepts in rural areas / J. Farrington [and others] --
Construction nature: elements for a post-structuralist political ecology / A. Escobar --
From meta-narratives to flexible frameworks: an actor level analysis of land degradation in highland Tanzania / S. Jones --
Environmentalists, rubber tappers and empowerment: the politics and economics of extractive reserves / K. Brown and S. Rosendo.

This work brings together a core selection of key articles published that have helped define the field of environment and development.

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