Land Degradation and Society - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1138923028 ISBN 13: 9781138923027

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most crucial issues in development today, using an approach called ‘regional political ecology’. This approach acknowledges that the reason why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part.

Land Degradation and Society is essential reading for all students of geography, agriculture, social sciences, development studies and related subjects.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

List of figures;  List of tables;  List of contributors;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  1. Defining and debating the problem  2. Approaches to the study of land degradation  3. Measuring land degradation  4. Decision-making in land management  5. Economic costs and benefits of degradation and its repair  6. Colonialism, development and degradation  7. Questions from history in the Mediterranean and western Europe  8. Degradation under pre-capitalist social systems  9. Management, enterprise and politics in the development of the tropical rain forest lands  10. The degradation of common property resources  11. Land degradation in socialist countries  12. The farmer, the state and the land in developed market economics  13. Retrospect and prospect; References;  Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138923028
• ISBN 13: 9781138923027
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Redattore: Blaikie Piers, Brookfield Harold