Land Degradation and Society

Herausgeber: Blaikie, Piers; Brookfield, Harold

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most crucial issues in development today, using an approach called 'regional political ecology'. Land Degradation and Society is essential reading for all students of geography, agriculture, social sciences, development studies and related subjects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138923072
• ISBN-10: 1138923079
• Artikelnr.: 47271631

Autorenporträt

Blaikie, Piers; Brookfield, Harold

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction; 1. Defining and debating the problem 2. Approaches to the
study of land degradation 3. Measuring land degradation 4. Decision-making
in land management 5. Economic costs and benefits of degradation and its
repair 6. Colonialism, development and degradation 7. Questions from
history in the Mediterranean and western Europe 8. Degradation under
pre-capitalist social systems 9. Management, enterprise and politics in the
development of the tropical rain forest lands 10. The degradation of common
property resources 11. Land degradation in socialist countries 12. The
farmer, the state and the land in developed market economics 13. Retrospect
and prospect; References; Index