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Author : Michael Heckenberger
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ecology of Power by : Michael Heckenberger
Download or read book The Ecology of Power written by Michael Heckenberger. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Corey Ross
Release : 2017
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 419/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire by : Corey Ross
Download or read book Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire written by Corey Ross. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.
Author : Pete Newell
Release : 2013-04-24
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Globalization and the Environment by : Pete Newell
Download or read book Globalization and the Environment written by Pete Newell. This book was released on 2013-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the book highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf. Each chapter looks in turn at the political ecology of these central pillars of the global economy, reviewing evidence of its impact on diverse ecologies and societies, its governance - the political structures, institutions and policy making processes in place to manage this relationship - and finally efforts to contest and challenge these prevailing approaches. The book makes sense of the relationship between globalisation and the environment using a range of theoretical tools from different disciplines. This helps to place the debate about the compatibility between globalisation and sustainability in an explicitly political and historical context in which it is possible to appreciate the ‘nature’ of interests and power relations that privilege some ways of responding to environmental problems over others in a context of globalisation.
Author : Alf Hornborg
Release : 2013-06-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 293/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ecology and Power by : Alf Hornborg
Download or read book Ecology and Power written by Alf Hornborg. This book was released on 2013-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined. What makes this volume unique is that it sets this approach in a trans-disciplinary, global, and historical framework.
Author : Michael J. Heckenberger
Release : 2004-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ecology of Power by : Michael J. Heckenberger
Download or read book The Ecology of Power written by Michael J. Heckenberger. This book was released on 2004-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology.
