Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030560355,303056035X, 9783030560362, 3030560368

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030560368
• ISBN-13: 9783030560362
• Author: Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between environmental governance in the global North and South. A wide range of carefully curated case studies are presented, with a particular focus on Africa and Norway. Key themes of power, justice and environmental sustainability run through all chapters. The authors challenge established views and leading discourses and present research findings that may surprise readers. Chapters cover topics including wildlife conservation, climate change and conflicts, land grabbing, the effects of population growth on the environment, jihadism in the African Sahel, bioprospecting, feminist political ecology, and struggles around carbon mitigation within a fossil fuel-based economy. This introductory text provides tools and examples for both undergraduate and postgraduate students to better understand on-going struggles about some of the world’s most urgent challenges.

Table contents:

1. Political Ecology on Pandora

2. Theoretical Influences and Recent Directions

3. Discourses and Narratives on Environment and Development: The Example of Bioprospecting

4. Conservation Discourses Versus Practices

5. Gender and Power: Feminist Political Ecologies

6. Climate Mitigation Choices: Reducing Deforestation in the Global South Versus Reducing Fossil Fuel Production at Home

7. Pastoralists and the State

8. Climate Change, Scarcity and Conflicts in the Sahel

9. Population Growth, Markets and Sustainable Land-Use in Africa

10. Stocktake and Ways Forward

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