Carbon claims and energy landscapes : exploring the politicalecology of biomass
Bioenergy ; Biomass energy ; Ecology ; Energy ; England ; Landscape ; Politicalecology ; Uncertainty ; United Kingdom ; Yorkshire
This paper explores the ways in which biomass is framed within the carbon debate, interrogating the trade-offs and conflicts surrounding the production of dedicated and subsidized energy crops. Drawing upon a politicalecology framework, the AA
This article examines agrobiodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and a feminist politicalecology of sorghum and finger millet in Northern Malawi. First, it suggests that sorghum almost disappeared due to a combination of maize promotion, male
Power, knowledge and politicalecology in the third world : a review
Capitalist states ; Conflict ; Developing countries ; Economic policy ; Environment ; Global change ; Human ecology ; Land use ; Man-environment relations ; Perception ; Power ; Resource management
Politicalecology examines the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world. The role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicized environment is a central theme. Particular
attention is given to the ways in which conflict over access to environmental resources is linked to systems of political and economic control first elaborated during the colonial era. Studies emphasize the increased marginality and vulnerability of the poor
An American geographer and specialist on Asia’s environments reviews three theoretical frameworks (Classical, Ecological Modernization, and Critical PoliticalEcology) that offer different prognoses and solutions to the problem of environmental
degradation in China. He argues that the former two approaches limit understanding of (and available solutions to) China’s environmental problems, often framed in environmental crisis narratives. He demonstrates how the third framework (Critical Political
Ecology) offers an alternative analysis of the fundamental environmental issues accompanying China’s rise, yielding quite different insights informing policy and practice.
Cardiff ; Gentrification ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban district ; Urban ecology ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Wales
for a transformation of urban ecologicalpolitics. The choosen case study is the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay. The analysis considers why radical ecologicalpolitics failed to develop and whether the contradictions inherent in the regeneration strategy might yet
The paper is built upon notion of an environmental imaginary to conceptualise the distinctive ways in which the politics of nature are inserted into regeneration strategies. It seeks to examine how regional discursive formations frame the scope
Bog ; Ecology ; Flood control ; Land rent ; Land speculation ; Legislation ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Politicalecology ; Real estate development ; United States of America ; Urban policy
theoretically the relative inattention of urban politicalecology theory to rent as a way to theorize how capital flows through land, and argues for increased attention to the problem of land rent and the multiple scales of political engagement that manage
This paper presents results from a study of environmental harm created in the collision of real estate speculation and the political process that governed extension of the urban frontier of New Orleans into its eastern wetlands. The paper engages
ecological crisis immanent in the metabolism of nature and society under capitalism.
Politicalecology and the geography of science : Lesosady, Lysenkoism, and Soviet Science in Kyrgyzstan's walnut–fruit forest
Agronomy ; Asian part of Russia ; Ecology ; Historical geography ; Kyrgyzstan ; Politicalecology ; Twentieth Century
geographies that immerse them in and transform the world. By telling them, political ecologists can better illuminate where and how the doing of science has shaped encounters between people and their environments.
Andes ; Conflict ; El Salvador ; Environment ; Extractive industry ; Latin America ; Politicalecology ; Post-neoliberalism ; Social movement
The paper explores several ways in which the extraction of mineral and hydrocarbon resources is constitutive of wider capitalist political, economic and institutional arrangements. Drawing on material from el Salvador and the Andean countries
, the paper explores the contemporary governance of extractive industries, and points to significant convergence among the approaches taken by neoliberal and post-neoliberal regimes. The paper highlights the ways in which activist political ecologists play
Queer ecology : nature, sexuality, and heterotopic alliances
Cemetery ; Difference ; Green space ; London ; Politicalecology ; Post-humanism ; Public space ; Urban area ; Urban ecology
This interdisciplinary terrain is explored by using the example of an urban cemetery in North London as a starting point. Queer ecology may enrich our understanding of both urban materiality and the role of metaphors in urban theory. This idea
, and the landscape theme. Six types of explanations were found in political geography: the cognitive description, the morphometric analysis, systems analysis, temporal explanation, functional-ecological and cause and effect explanations.
The political geography of the 1970s shows a more interdisciplinary nature either by the adoption of new research areas from other social sciences or by the adoption of new methods from the social sciences. It is possible to identify three major
theoretical foci in political geography: systems approach, territoriality and spatial behavior. It is also possible to identify four themes or directive principles: the areal-differentiation theme, the spatial theme, the man-environment theme