Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

• Autore: Kaltmeier Olaf <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 pages)
• Altri autori: SandovalMaría Fernanda López PáduaJosé Augusto ZarrilliAdrián Gustavo
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Academic Advisory Board -- General Introduction -- The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis -- Periods of the Anthropocene's Genealogy in Latin America -- Colonial Period -- From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- From 1950 to the Present -- Anthropocene Regions in Latin America -- Southern Cone -- Andes -- Amazon -- Mesoamerica -- Caribbean -- Land Use -- Final Words -- Colonial Period -- Introduction: Land Use in Colonial Latin America in the Anthropocene History -- References -- Land Use in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period -- Demographic Change -- Changes in Land Use from an Indigenous Perspective -- Land Use for Food and Commerce -- Location, Resources, and Imperial Strategy -- Conclusion -- References -- Land Use in the Andes in the Colonial Period -- The Andean Space in History: Geosystems and Cultures -- The Impact of the Conquest and Changes in Land Ownership -- Royal Lands, Grants, Reductions, and Compositions -- Technological Changes and New Products -- The New Livestock Farming -- The Impact of Colonial Mining on the Landscape and the Environment -- The Export Market, Plantation Systems, and Cinchona Extraction -- Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in the Amazon in the Colonial Period -- Representations of the Conquest -- Colonization Projects: Missions and Cities (Seventeenth Century) -- Enlightenment Projects (Eighteenth Century) -- Land Use -- Environmental Impacts -- Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period -- Mesoamerica: Imprints of the Future of a Region in the Long Term -- Land Use at the Time of Conquest -- Land‐use Actors and Transformation Factors -- Land, Property, and Labor: Setting and Implementing Crown Policies -- Resistance and Rebellions in the 300 Years of Colonialism in New Spain. ; New Productive Geographies: the Extractive Model and New Spatial Configurations -- Urban‐Rural Rearticulation: Roads and Cities in the Web of New Land Uses -- Mining and Forestry -- Finance and Livestock: Consolidating Land Grabbing in Mesoamerica -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period -- The Hatera Society in the Hispanic Insular Caribbean -- Sugar and Slave Islands -- Cattle Ranching in Plantation Colonies and Smuggling -- Brief Conclusions -- References -- From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Introduction: Land Use, Second Conquest, and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- References -- Land Use in the Southern Cone from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Brazil, the Mercantile Use of Land from the Colonial to the Independent Period -- The Southern Cone of Spanish America -- Conclusion -- References -- Land Use in the Andes from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Crises in the Tropical Andes -- Land Use Change -- Biomass Plantations and Extractivisms -- Final Discussion -- References -- Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Nation‐State Projects and Evangelization: from "Empty" and Wild Territory to Inexhaustible Source of Resources -- Travelers, Scientific Expeditions, and Chorographic Commissions -- From Military Engineers to Civilian Engineers -- Cinchona, Rubber and the Incorporation of the Amazon into the Global Market -- Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in Mesoamerica from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Antecedents: the Colonial Legacy -- Economic Liberalism in the Period 1810-1870 -- Agrarian Nationalism and Transnational Interventionism (1870-1930) -- Developmentalism and Scientific and Technological Intervention in the Countryside (1930-1950). ; Discussion from the Anthropocene: Strategies and Resistance to Environmental Crises -- References -- Land Use in the Caribbean from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- The Slave Sugar Plantations -- The Era of Power Plants -- Other Agricultural Land Uses -- Transitions in Livestock Farming -- Final Note -- References -- From 1950 to the Present -- Introduction: Land Use in the Latin American Anthropocene from 1950 to the Present -- References -- Land Use in the Southern Cone from 1950 to the Present -- Geographic‐Ecological and Socio‐Historical Context -- Territorial Transformations -- The "Soybean Republic:" an Example of Territorial Metabolism -- Conclusion -- References -- Land Use in the Andes from 1950 to the Present -- Dispute over Land and Gradual Appearance of the Environmental Issue in Debates -- Structural Changes and Exacerbation of Land Scarcity during the Twentieth Century -- Agrarian Reforms and the Beginnings of a Critical Debate on the Modernization and Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier -- End of Agrarian Reforms, Globalization, Extractivism, and Environmentalist Turn(s) -- Access to Land and Spatial Forms of Land Use Transformation -- The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier -- Uncontrolled Expansion of Urbanized Land and Associated Resource Degradation -- The Direct and Indirect Consequences of the Extraction of Non‐Agricultural Natural Resources -- Conclusions: Access and Control of Land as a Possibility of Reversing Anthropocene Processes -- References -- Land Use in the Amazon from 1950 to the Present -- Population Growth as Common Driver of Landscape Domestication and Contemporary Land Cover Transformations -- The Indigenous Land Use Footprint and Environmentalist Narrative -- The Colonist Farmer Footprint and the Frontier Land Narrative. ; Conclusions: The Anthropocene as an Analytical Framework of Contemporary Landscape Transformations in Amazonia and Beyond -- References -- Land Use in Mesoamerica from 1950 to the Present -- Plantationocene and Environmental Violence -- The State as a Major Catalyst of Development Violence (1950-1980) -- Transformations in Land Use (1950‐ 1980) -- The Agroexport Boom and Developmental Capitalism in Central America -- The Uneven Development of the Mexican Agricultural Sector -- The Neoliberal Shift: The Appropriation of Globalized Land (1980‐present) -- Resistance and Conflict (1980‐present) -- Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in the Caribbean from 1950 to the Present -- Land Use Patterns -- Axis I: Agriculture -- Axis II: Urbanization -- Axis III: Services -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Biographical Notes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
• ISBN: 3-8394-7011-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910871900903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.