Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Human-Environment Interactions,
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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.