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Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The authors examine the political contexts of a broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts
Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change
James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park
Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania
Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro
Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez
Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods
James B. Greenberg
Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia
Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch
Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town's Informal Settlements
Angela Storey
Chapter 8. Land Tenu

Product details

Published Mar 06 2020
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 318
ISBN 9781978788268
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 9 b/w illustrations;4 tables;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Thomas K. Park

Anthology Editor

James B. Greenberg

Contributor

Diane E. Austin

Contributor

Mamadou Baro

Contributor

Anita Carrasco

Contributor

Lisa L. Gezon

Contributor

Edward Liebow

Contributor

Aminata Niang

Contributor

Ravic Nijbroek

Contributor

Thomas K. Park

Contributor

Angela Storey

Contributor

Ylva Uggla

Contributor

Alaka Wali

Contributor

Casey Walsh

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