Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research - Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Reenberg, Anette; Schaffartzik, Anke.; Mayer, Andreas; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
PART I: Ester Boserup's Intellectual Heritage -- 1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability -- 2. "Finding Out Is My Life": Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s -- 3. Boserup's Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition -- PART II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture -- 4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change - a Case from the South West Pacific -- 5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity -- 6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models -- 7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) -- 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development -- PART III: Population and Gender -- 9. Following Boserup's Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women's Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces -- 10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas -- 11. Revisiting Boserup's Hypotheses in the Context of Africa -- 12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup's Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development -- 13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters -- 14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria -- 15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development -- 16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Agriculture; Sociology; Ecosystems; Human geography; Sustainable Development; Agriculture; Gender Studies; Ecosystems; Human Geography