Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Peet, Richard, Watts, Michael, 1951-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:	Human ecology > Developing countries > Case studies. Economic development > Environmental aspects > Case studies. Developing countries > Environment > Conservation

Table of Contents:

Liberation ecology : development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism / Richard Peet and Michael Watts - Constructing nature : elements for a poststructural political ecology / Arturo Escobar
Improved seeds and constructed society / Lakshman Yapa
Movements, modernizations, and markets : indigenous organizations and agrarian strategies in Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington
Discourses on soil loss in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer
Marxism, culture, and political ecology : environmental struggles in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands / Donald S. Moore
Defining deforestation in Madagascar / Lucy Jarosz
Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment : the intersection of gender with agrarian change in Gambia / Judith A. Carney
Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata
From Chipko to Uttaranchal : development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India / Haripriya Rangan
The political ecology of agrarian reform in China : the case of Heilongjiang province / Joshua S.S. Muldavin
Conclusion : Towards a theory of liberation ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet.