Drylands facing change interventions, investments and identities
"This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia. Changes is drylands is happening in an overwhelming manner....
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, New York :
Routledge
[2023]
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| Colección: | Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745045306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Editors and contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change
- PART I: Climate, environment, and narratives
- 2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands
- 3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands
- PART II: Resources, institutions, and power
- 4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation, and mining in Africa
- 5.Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate
- 6. The 'open cut' in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing
- 7 Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: from enchantments to disenchantments
- 8 The new green grabbing frontier and participation: conserving drylands with or without people
- PART III: Conflict, connection, and livelihoods
- 9 Religious movements in the drylands: ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism
- 10 Making cities in drylands: migration, livelihoods, and policy
- 11 Drylands connected: mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies
- PART IV: Responses and potentials
- 12 Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands
- 13 Alternative perspectives: a bright side of natural resource governance in drylands
- Index.
