political ecology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... ecology An umbrella term for a variety of projects that involve politics and the environment, including attempts to study politics using the language and methods of ecology , the study of political struggles for control over natural resources , and research on biodiversity and natural resource exploitation that is intended to inform public...
political ecology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geography (5 ed.)
...Asia Pac. Viewpt 49, 1 on the political ecology of the Jharkhand region of India. Walker (2005) PHG 29, 73 notes that ‘while political ecology has thrived, its coherence as a field of study and its central intellectual contributions remain the subject of sometimes contentious debate’. One of the recurrent, and unresolved, questions has been ‘Where is the ecology in political ecology?’ Vayda and Walters (1999) Hum. Ecol. 27 argue that ‘some political ecologists do not even deal with literally the influence of politics in effecting environmental...
Ecology, Political Reference library
Robert Melchior FIGUEROA
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...(2002). Critical political ecology: The politics of environmental science . New York: Routledge. Paulson, Susan , & Gezon, Lisa L. (Eds.). (2004). Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups . Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Peet, Richard , & Watts, Michael . (Eds.). (2007). Liberation ecologies , second edition. New York: Routledge. Robbins, Paul . (2004). Political ecology: A critical introduction . Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Sheridan, Thomas E. (1998). Where the dove calls: The political ecology of a peasant...
political ecology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...by feminist political ecologists (see, for example, Rocheleau et al. ( 1997 ), Feminist Political Ecology: Global Perspectives and Local Experience ). All this has produced more rounded research, but also been coincident with political ecology becoming ever more intellectually plural and normatively diverse. For instance, despite its roots in the study of rural areas in the Global South, there is now an urban political ecology whose practitioners not only study cities but also ones in the Global North. The enrichment provided by political ecology’s lack of...
political ecology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology
...political ecology An interdisciplinary approach to research and advocacy about human–nature relations that recognizes the complex intersections between nature’s use and destruction with political-economic power and social inequality. Drawing on Marxist political-economy as its basic model of socio-economic determination, political ecology emerged in the 1980s to study how capitalism’s excessive demands on natural resources produce mutually reinforcing social marginality, political inequality, and ecological destruction at multiple scales, from the local to...
urban political ecology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geography (5 ed.)
...political ecology If one component of political ecology is the study of political struggles for control over natural resources, urban political ecology is easy to define, and Swyngedouw and Heynen are its begetters: ‘the political programme of urban political ecology is to enhance the democratic content of socio-environmental construction’ ( Swyngedouw and Heynen (2003) Antipode 35, 5 ). N. Heynen (2006) calls for ‘more equitable distribution of social power and a more inclusive mode of the production of nature’; see Myers (2008) Urb. Geog. 29,...
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Compatibility: Neither Required nor an Issue Reference library
Ullah Jan Abid
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...Review , July 11–17, 2002. http://www.yomari.com/p-review/2002/07/11072002/demo.html. 15. Karen Litfin. “Secularism, Sovereignty and the Challenge of Global Ecology: Towards a New Story,” page 2. Paper prepared for presentation at the workshop on “The Global Ecological Crisis and the Nation State: Sovereignty, Economy and Ecology,” Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium on Political Research, Grenoble, France, 6–11 April 2001. 16. Editorial, New York Times , November 14, 2003. What hurt NY Times the most is: “it [Afghanistan's proposed...
Poverty Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...prices and military recruitment, by industrial disputes, political conflict, and, in the 1790s, by fears of *revolution [1] spreading from France. Commoners contested land enclosure and loss of their customary rights. The Captain Swing rioters of 1830–1 , who broke the threshing machines which threatened winter employment, are credited with finally tipping opinion towards poor law reform [ see *riots ]. Manufacturing districts and areas of rapid population growth had their own distinctive ecology of disturbance and violence. Machine-breaking erupted...
Liberation Theology: Latin America Reference library
M. Daniel Carroll R.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...liberationists who seek to pursue with renewed energy themes that now are emerging with increasing relevancy in the nascent fragile democracies of Latin America—particularly the status and options of women (not totally ignored in the past, but now receiving greater attention), ecology, and the indigenous. Richard, for instance, believes that liberation hermeneutics has much to offer the elaboration of a theology for the indigenous and their struggle for civil and religious rights. Liberationists who desire to explore this area are also considering the...
Land Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...through a set of marches and *petitions presented to parliament during the famine years of 1794–5 and again in 1801 , to link their demands for political reform with a mass of agricultural labourers made volatile by the hunger in the countryside. This, too, was to be the enduring goal of republican and nationalist politics in Ireland. While elsewhere in Britain this pattern in the network of political relations between city and country developed under the auspices of the parliamentary reform movement, another pattern was grounded in the communitarian...
Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy Reference library
Carol Meyers
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...sizes in particular configurations—such as a town site surrounded by smaller “satellite” villages—provide evidence of the centralization of economic and social functions that correlate with political centralization. Surveys also investigate environmental factors that have a bearing on ancient historical changes. The study of the landscape and ecology of a region is necessary to understand human exploitation of the environment. Geological, hydrological, climatic, and topographic variables all help determine the subsistence base of a given...
Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World Reference library
Shabbir Akhtar
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...the religious significance of Nature and an auxiliary technology are profound in a way we today more readily appreciate than did Muhammad's own contemporaries. Within the scripture of Islam there is, in the Reverend Kenneth Cragg's apt phrase, “a theology of ecology.” 6 Unless technology is itself placed under a constraining sovereignty—unless Allah-u-akbar is also the scientists’ slogan—all our scientific achievements may well radically come to grief. A merciful creator has placed the natural world in our trust. Do we know the duties of...
Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel Reference library
Lawrence E. Stager
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...hypothesis and an attempt to separate the process of Iron Age I settlement from the problem of Israelite origins. ———. “Archaeology, Ecology, and Social History: Background Themes to the Song of Deborah.” Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 40 (1988): 221–34. A study that highlights the intersection of event (the battle of Kishon) and la longue durée (tribal economy and ecology). ———. “The Impact of the Sea Peoples (1185–1050 bce ).” In The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land , ed. Thomas E. Levy , 332–48. New...
Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt Reference library
Carol A. Redmount
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...Sinai and a northern one along the Mediterranean coast (although Exod. 13.17–18 expressly states that the latter, anachronistically called “the way of the land of the Philistines,” was not taken by the Israelites). Recent studies emphasizing both the modern and the past ecology and ethnography of the Sinai Peninsula suggest, however, that four major east-west routes ran through Sinai in antiquity. The northernmost hugs the Mediterranean coast; the other three follow desert wadis, the main channels for water and communication through the huge, barren...
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