Political Ecology. Paul Robbins

Evaluating the Thesis In the Field: “Lawn People” as Environmental Subjects in the United States

      16  Chapter 12: Political Objects and Actors The Argument The Evidence Evaluating the Thesis In the Field: Do Mosquitoes Manage Bureaucracies?

      17  Chapter 13: Political Ecologies of the Future? Less is More: Degrowth More is Less: Modernist Ecosocialism Neither More nor Less: The Shadows of Utopia and Dystopia In the Meantime …

      18  Bibliography

      19  Index

      20  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Defining political ecology.Table 1.2 Who is overpopulated? Comparative per capita consumption of resourc...Table 1.3 Five theses of political ecology and the things they attempt to exp...

      2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Concepts and Processes in Political Ecology.

      3 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Ifugao Categories of Land Types and Succession Patterns (based on d...

      4 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Lessons from, and Limitations of, Other Modes of Explanation from t...

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Wildebeest crossing the Mara River in Kenya. The migration of wil...

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Julian Steward's cultural ecology.Figure 2.2 Barney Neitschmann with Miskito militants in eastern Nicaragua, 1...

      3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Indigenous cattle of Odisha, India. Though lower in productivity ...Figure 3.2 Watts' moral economy of famine in Hausaland and Sokoto.

      4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater work: Anthropocene. The figure...Figure 4.2 The chain of explanation.

      5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Plantation forests tend to be even aged and evenly spaced; their ...Figure 5.2 (a) Anabel Ford recognizing valuable volunteer plants in Zacarias...Figure 5.3 State and transition for ecosystems in the Mkambati area.Figure 5.4 Types of ecosystem that develop under varying levels of biotic an...

      6 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Environmental worker rescuing an oil‐covered brown pelican (Pelec...Figure 8.2 Cotton yields in Mali. Since the 1990s, the push for increased co...Figure 8.3 Deforestation in Brazil, aerial view of a large soy field eating ...

      7 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 A “paper” showing the trawling routes of boats in one section of ...Figure 9.2 Agricultural burning in Madagascar. View from the space shuttle D...Figure 9.3 Explaining unintended land cover consequences of conservation in ...

      8 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 A population and building boom across the American west has led ...Figure 10.2 Change in available household reproductive resources for a sampl...

      9 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 A local herder pleads his case for forest use at a contentious l...Figure 11.2 The American lawn covers an area larger than the state of Michig...

      10 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Monsanto seed company ownership ties. The global seed industry i...Figure 12.2 The mosquito life cycle. Each phase of reproduction invites diff...

      11 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 The evolution of Wisconsin's dairy industry. Wisconsin Milk Mark...Figure 13.2 The “box” style robotic milker provides feed based on the indivi...

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