Development in place [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives and challenges / / José C.M. van Santen (editor)

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Aksant, 2008, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.91724
• Soggetto topico: Land use, Urban - Environmental aspects; Economic development - Environmental aspects; Development economics
• Altri autori: SantenJosé C. M. van
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Development in Place : Perspectives and Challenges; Inhoud; Development in Place: Perspectives and Challenges; On Rurality, Rural Development and Rural Sociology; Division of Labour,Production, Reproduction and the Household: a Continuing Debate; 'New Nature': On the Production of a Paradox; Individualization of Livestock Ownership in Fulbe Family Herds: the Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal in Northern Cameroon; The 'Heart of Borneo': Transboundary Conservation and its Challenges; Creating Space for Crocodiles: Environmental Governance in the Philippines ; Reconstruction of a Society: Indigenous Perceptions of Land and Ecuadorian State Law among the Tsáchila of Northwest Ecuador'Giving a Voice to the Elephant': The Intricate Relation between Wildlife,Local Populations and Global Actors in North Cameroon; Exclusive Cities: Space, Social Capital and Urban Fragmentation in Jamaica and Curaçao; Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: Built Heritage in Two Indonesian Cities, Jakarta and Yogyakarta; Batanghari Sembilan: Cultural Landscapes, Centres, and Underground Streams in the Southern Sumatran Highlands; About the authors
• Sommario/riassunto: In humanity's struggle to find timely solutions to environmental problems, it is easily forgotten that access to our shared spaces has never been equal. This collection deals with the landscapes and places of rural, urban, and wilderness areas in relation development. Contributions examine the complex relationship that human beings maintain with their rural and urban environments and with other species in various places and spaces. Nothing is taken for granted: colonial history, globalization, localization, hybrid relationships, colonial or ""shared""architecture, religious backgrounds, and claim
• Titolo autorizzato: Development in place
• ISBN: 1-283-25957-5; 9786613259578; 90-485-2113-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808463803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Antropologie academie ; ; d. 6.