Political economies of landscape change : places of integrative power
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Political economies of landscape change : places of integrative power
(The GeoJournal library, v. 89)
Springer, c2010
- : [pbk.]
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This hugely important and timely work asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. It explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broad readership of landscape architects, geographers, and related fields of social and environmental research.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments,-Introduction: Three Faces of Power in LandscapeChange: James L Wescoat Jr.,- Part I. Landscapes of Struggle, Possibility, and Prosperity: 1: New Axioms for Reading the Landscape: Paying Attention to Political Economy and Social Justice: Don Mitchell,- 2: Landscapes of Possibility? Livelihood and Intervention in the Production of Andean Landscape: Anthony J. Bebbington,- 3. Moving to the Mountains: Amenity Migration in the Sierra and Southern Appalachian Mountains: Kurt Culbertson et al,- Part II. Political and Economic Driving Forces of Landscape Change,- 4: Constructing the Politics of Landscape Change in the U.S. Susan Clarke,- 5: Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization and Landscape Change: Tom Evans et al,- 6. Green Landscapes: Exogenous Economic Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Douglas M. Johnston and John B. Braden,- 7. Pricing the Economic Landscape: Global Financial Markets and the Communities and Institutions of Risk Management: Terry L. Babcock-Lumish and Gordon L. Clark,- Part III. Integrative Landscape Change,- 8. The Globalized Landscape: Rural Landscape Change and Policy in the United States and European Union: Joan Nassauer and Dirk Wascher,- 9. Implications for Landscape Inquiry, Planning, and Design: Douglas M. Johnston and James L. Wescoat Jr. ,- Contributors,- Index
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