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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970169103321

Titolo

Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-38293-6

1-134-38294-4

9786610241279

1-280-24127-6

0-203-23509-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Classificazione

83.46

Altri autori (Persone)

PeetRichard

WattsMichael <1951->

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human ecology - Developing countries

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Davis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Michael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- Gender



conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carney -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth.

Sommario/riassunto

Liberation Ecologies  elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136348903321

Autore

Raïmi Fassassi

Titolo

La régulation de la fécondité en Afrique : transformations et différenciations au tournant du XXIe siècle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Academia Bruylant, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Soggetti

Family planning - Government policy - Africa

Contraception - Africa

Birth control - Africa

Fertility, Human - Africa

Family planning - Africa

Demographic surveys - Africa

Public Policy

Population Dynamics

Reproductive Techniques

Demography

Social Control Policies

Therapeutics

Social Sciences

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Policy

Population Characteristics

Social Control, Formal

Epidemiologic Measurements

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Public Health



Delivery of Health Care

Sociology

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Environment and Public Health

Family Planning Policy

Population Control

Contraception

Sociology & Social History

Family & Marriage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph