Agriculture ; Andes ; Applied ecology ; Bangladesh ; China ; Climatic change ; Drinking water ; Ecosystem ; Ecuador ; Florida ; Food security ; Germany ; Governance ; Health ; Irrigation ; Legislation ; Peru ; Politicalecology ; Rhine ; River
) basin ; 9-Explaining rapid transitions in the practice of flood risk management ; 10-The participatory vulnerability scoping diagram : deliberative risk ranking for community water systems ;11-Water resources science, policy, and politics for the Florida
Agricultural policy ; Agricultural productivity ; Alternative economy ; Australia ; Land use ; Market ; Multifunctionality ; Politicalecology ; South Australia
Biopolitics ; Development ; Economic sector ; Neo liberalism ; Politicalecology ; Role of the State ; Technology ; Water ; Water economics ; Water management ; Water supply
The regional dimension of the socio-political urban-rural conflict in Slovakia
Behaviour ; Cleavage ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Political behaviour ; Political party ; Rural-urban relations ; Slovak Republic ; Social conflict ; Social geography ; Urban region
Political behaviour of citizens is traditionally formed by a wide range of factors that influence their voting decision in the election. Dichotomy of both the space and society into the town and the countryside generates different election results
constantly. A key aim of this paper is to assess the extent of rurality concerning the electoral support of relevant political parties operating on the Slovak political scene after the groundbreaking elections held in 1998 until ballots of 2010 not only
at national, but also at the regional level. Evaluation of level and dynamics in socio-political cleavage between rural and urban space is one of the most important research ambitions of this study. - (EN)
Dissimulated landscapes : poscolonial method and the politics of space in southern Sri Lanka
The paper puts forward a broadly postcolonial method for engaging with landscapes in southern Sri Lanka. Landscapes risk dissimulating the politics of places as they are produced and lived contextually. This argument is worked through a critical
engagement of the landscape architecture of a tropical-modernist architect (G. Bawa). The A. shows how some of the familiar concept-metaphors (nature, religion, subjectivity) hold particular kinds of landscape politics that emerge from human relationships
The microfoundations of political clientelism : lessons from the Argentine case
Agency ; Argentina ; Candidate ; Clientelism ; Election ; Electoral geography ; Income ; Political geography ; Political party ; Social class ; Social geography
an account of the microfoundations of political clientelism in Argentina. By combining quantitative and qualitative data at the municipal level, I find that the number of pragmatist candidates, who are capable of using clientelism and prefer to turn
Antipode to terror : spaces of performative politics
Pakistan ; Performativity ; Political geography ; Public space ; Space ; Spatial organization ; Violence
Focusing on the activities of Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, this article argues that organized political violence is not only about death and destruction but also, about the control of the public sphere, and vitally
measures to resist violence should protect the performance of politics in an extended public sphere.
Activising space : the spatial politics of the 2011 protest movement in Israel
This article focuses on the spatial politics of the political protest that held in Tel Aviv, analysing the particular strategies it used to activise urban public space. It initially reflected the lack of affordable housing but as, as it materialised
of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This analysis points pointing to the spatial politics of centrality, multiplicity and ‘media-space’, a mutually enforcing relationship between physical public space and mainstream and social media.