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Marginalia : aesthetics, ecology, and urban wastelands
  • Marginalia : aesthetics, ecology, and urban wastelands
  • Applied ecology ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystem ; Esthetics ; Marginal area ; Urban ecology ; Vegetation ; Wasteland ; Wilderness
  • theoretically nuanced and historically grounded conception of the intersections between critical cultural discourses and recent advances in urban ecology might provide a useful counterpoint to narrowly utilitarian approaches to urban nature.
  • 2013
Differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of ecological land rent among provinces in China
  • Differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of ecological land rent among provinces in China
  • Agriculture ; China ; Cluster analysis ; Ecological footprint ; Ecology ; Economic development ; Environmental management ; Industrialization ; Man-environment relations ; Spatial analysis ; Sustainable development ; Urbanization
  • Ecological land rent is the excess profit produced by resource scarcity. This paper, by calculating the respective ecological land rents of all the provinces in China for the years 2002 and 2007, and with the assistance of the software programs
  • ArcGIS and GeoDA, analyzes the spatial differentiation characteristics of ecological land rent; then, the influencing factors of ecological land rent differentiation among the provinces are examined using the methods of traditional regression and spatial
  • correlation analysis. It is shown that population distribution, economic level and industrial structure were all important influencing factors. Population density, urbanization level, economic density were all shown to be positively related to total ecological
  • land rent. However, there was also a negative correlation between ecological land rent and agricultural output percentage.
  • 2013
From rural transformation to global integration : comparative analyses of the environmental dimensions of China’s rise
  • China ; Climatic change ; Ecological modernization ; Ecology ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Economic policy ; Environmental crisis ; Modernization ; Political ecology
  • An American geographer and specialist on Asia’s environments reviews three theoretical frameworks (Classical, Ecological Modernization, and Critical Political Ecology) that offer different prognoses and solutions to the problem of environmental
  • Ecology) offers an alternative analysis of the fundamental environmental issues accompanying China’s rise, yielding quite different insights informing policy and practice.
  • 2013
Messing with gender in feminist political ecology
  • Messing with gender in feminist political ecology
  • Feminism ; Gender ; Honduras ; Political ecology ; Post-colonialism ; Race ; Whites
  • The AA. argue that feminist political ecology must theorize a more complex and messier notion of gender that accounts for race , racialization and racism more explicitly. Building on the work of feminist geography and critical race scholarship
  • 2013
Technifying public space and publicizing infrastructures : exploring new urban political ecologies through the square of General Vara del Rey
  • Technifying public space and publicizing infrastructures : exploring new urban political ecologies through the square of General Vara del Rey
  • Architecture ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Political ecology ; Public space ; Spain ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban planning
  • ecology. Through the double movement of ‘the technification of public space’ and ‘the publicization of infrastructures’, the square aims to rethink the political ecology of urban public spaces. The transformation of infrastructures into fully visible
  • 2013
Eden, Earth Day, and Ecology: Landscape Restoration as Metaphor and Mission
  • Eden, Earth Day, and Ecology: Landscape Restoration as Metaphor and Mission
  • Earth Day ; Ecological restoration ; Ecology ; Eden ; Landscape ; Man-environment relations ; Nature conservation ; Philosophy ; Value system ; Wilderness ; ecology ; landscape restoration
  • Ecologic Crisis’ (1967) and the Earth Day reform mission (1970), convergent redemptive philosophies realigned ecotheology and landscape restoration along Franciscan lines, shedding commandments to subdue and conquer for injunctions to live in harmony
  • with nature. Previously condemned as the antithesis of Eden, wilderness was transformed from dreaded chaos into a redemptive realm that led ecological restorers to idealise and worship supposedly virgin scenes. Instead of getting civilised, wild landscapes
  • 2013
Differentiated circuits : the ecologies of knowing and securing life
  • Differentiated circuits : the ecologies of knowing and securing life
  • Avian influenza ; Biosecurity ; Disease ; Human ecology ; Knowledge ; Monitoring ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Security ; United Kingdom
  • 2013
Bound by chains of carbon : ecological–economic geographies of globalization
  • Bound by chains of carbon : ecological–economic geographies of globalization
  • Carbon ; Commodity ; Ecological footprint ; Economic activity ; Economic sector ; Environment ; Globalization ; Household consumption ; International trade
  • This article analyses the ecological–economic geographies of globalization in order to demonstrate how regions could be connected with seemingly distant carbon emissions. It shows that emissions from emerging economies such as China might also
  • 2013
Hodnocení prostorových a časových zmĕn ekologického stavu toků v Česku : geografický přístup
  • Czech Republic ; Ecology ; Erosion ; Hydrogeomorphology ; Pollution ; Spatial variation ; Stream ; Suspended load ; Water quality
  • This paper presents results obtained through research on the changes in the ecological status of streams in Czechia and discusses the potential of a geographical approach to this type of research. The results show that changes in the ecological
  • to the interpretation of changes in the ecological status of streams and in the formulation of proposals for their improvement and sustainability. - (EN)
  • 2013
Towards an agenda for post-carbon cities : lessons from Lilac, the UK's first ecological, affordable cohousing community
  • Towards an agenda for post-carbon cities : lessons from Lilac, the UK's first ecological, affordable cohousing community
  • The article draws upon a case study of an embryonic post-carbon initiative completed in early 2013 called Lilac. Based in Leeds, it is the first attempt to build an affordable, ecological cohousing project in the UK. Its three aspects each respond
  • 2013
Fueling capitalism : oil, the regulation approach, and the ecology of capital
  • Fueling capitalism : oil, the regulation approach, and the ecology of capital
  • Capitalism ; Fordism ; Oil ; Political ecology ; Regulation theory ; Society-environment relationship ; United States of America
  • 2013
A political ecology of beef in colonial Tanzania and the global periphery, 1864-1961
  • A political ecology of beef in colonial Tanzania and the global periphery, 1864-1961
  • British people ; Cattle ; Colonial period ; Extensive livestock farming ; Historical geography ; Meat ; Pastoral ; Political ecology ; Tanzania
  • 2013
Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape : examples from Lierne, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
  • Biodiversity ; Boreal forest ; Ecology ; Environmental management ; Fodder ; Land use ; Nature conservation ; Norway
  • The article documents former land use practices in a boreal forest landscape in Nordli, Central Norway, and discuss the ecological consequences with respect to conservation. Fodder harvesting methods are closely related to ecological conditions
  • 2013
Oral histories as a baseline of landscape restoration – co-management and watershed knowledge in Jukajoki river
  • Cultural studies ; Ecological restoration ; Ecosystem ; Finland ; Governance ; Karelia ; Knowledge ; Landscape ; Local population ; Watershed
  • , Finland. Firstly, it demonstrates that local knowledge, including optic histories, provides information about pre-industrial fisheries, fish ecology and behaviour and bird habitats. Secondly, it shows that empirical oral histories conceptualize
  • collaborative governance with a formal role of local ecological knowledge as a future management option for this area. It concludes that watershed restoration and associated baseline information benefits from the oral histories recorded with people who still
  • 2013
Ecologies of experience : materiality, sociality, and the embodied experience of (street) performing
  • Ecologies of experience : materiality, sociality, and the embodied experience of (street) performing
  • Affect ; Ecology ; England ; Espace vécu ; London ; Place ; Social geography ; Social practice ; Street ; United Kingdom ; Urban area
  • 2013
The unintended consequences of ecological modernization : debt-induced reconfiguration of the water cycle in Barcelona
  • The unintended consequences of ecological modernization : debt-induced reconfiguration of the water cycle in Barcelona
  • Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Ecological modernization ; Governance ; Indebtedness ; Private sector ; Spain ; Urban economy ; Water ; Water cycle ; Water management ; Water supply
  • increased as a result of ecological modernization imposed mostly by European Directives coupled with inadequate financing of the water cycle. Finally, we discuss what may be learnt from Barcelona that could be relevant for theoretical debates around
  • 2013
Impacts of ecological restoration projects on agricultural productivity in China
  • Impacts of ecological restoration projects on agricultural productivity in China
  • Agricultural productivity ; Agriculture ; China ; Ecological restoration ; Impact ; Land use ; Remote sensing
  • Based on cropland dynamic data from 2000 to 2008 primarily derived from satellite images with a 30-m resolution and satellite-based net primary productivity models, the AA. identified the impacts on agricultural productivity caused by ecological
  • 2013
The socionatural engineering of reductionist metaphors : a political ecology of synthetic biology
  • The socionatural engineering of reductionist metaphors : a political ecology of synthetic biology
  • Applied ecology ; Biology ; Commodification ; Health ; Information ; Knowledge ; Legislation ; Neo liberalism ; Political ecology
  • 2013
Performance of exclosure in restoring soil fertility : A case of Gubalafto district in North Wello Zone, northern highlands of Ethiopia
  • Agropedology ; Arid area ; Ecological restoration ; Ethiopia ; Northern Ethiopia ; Soil ; Soil degradation ; Soil properties
  • The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of exclosures on soil fertility restoration and examine its variability across age, agro-ecology and landscape position. The study was conducted in the Gubalafto district of North Wello Zone, northern
  • Ethiopian highlands. Vegetation cover was estimated and soil samples were collected from 3 age categories (open sites, 10- and 27-year-old exclosures), 2 agro-ecological zones (mild and cool) and in 3 landscape positions (lower, mid and upper). The samples
  • consider soil fertility restoration variation with age, agro-ecology and management conditions of the respective exclosure.
  • 2013
An exploration into political ecology and nonhuman agency : the case of the wild horse in western Canada
  • An exploration into political ecology and nonhuman agency : the case of the wild horse in western Canada
  • Alberta ; British Columbia ; Canada ; Ecology ; Ecosystem ; Horse ; Political ecology ; Saskatchewan ; Social construction ; Social geography
  • 2013