Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina. (Editor), Reenberg, Anette. (Editor), Schaffartzik, Anke. (Editor), Mayer, Andreas. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Human-Environment Interactions, 4
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.