Format:
1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:
9781000802566
Series Statement:
Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management Ser.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032393513
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032393513
Language:
English
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