1st Edition
Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability Synergies and divergences
Foreword
Andrew Millington
1. Notes for Avoiding a Missed Opportunity in Sustainability Science: Integrating Land Change Science and Political Ecology
Christian Brannstrom and Jacqueline M. Vadjunec
2. The Ghost of von Thünen Lives: A Political Ecology of the Disappearance of the Amazonian Forest
Robert Walker and Peter Richards
3. Forest Transitions in Southeast Asia: Synergies and Shortcomings in Land Change Science and Political Ecology
Guillaume Lestrelin, Jean-Christophe Castella and Jefferson Fox
4. Politicizing Land Use Change in Highland Madagascar: Struggles with Air Photo Analyses and Conservation Agendas
Christian A. Kull
5. Producing Biodiversity in Tanzania’s Mangrove Forests? A Combined Political Ecology and Ecological Resilience Approach to "Sustainably Utilized Landscapes"
Betsy A. Beymer-Farris
6. Gender, the Household, and Land Change in Southeastern Mexico
Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, and Crisol Méndez
7. Border Integrations: The Fusion of Political Ecology and Land Change Science to Inform and Contest Transboundary Integration in Amazonia
David S. Salisbury, Mariano Castro Sánchez Moreno, Luís Dávalos Torres, Robert Guimaraes Vásquez, José Saito Diaz, Pedro Tipula Tipula, Andrés Treneman Young, Carlos Arana Courrejolles, Martin Arana Cardó and the Grupo de Monitoreo de Megaproyectos Región Ucayali
8. Political Ecology and Land Change Science in the Study of Infrastructure Impacts: The Case of the Southwestern Amazon
Stephen G. Perz, Jane Southworth, Grenville Barnes, Youliang Qiu, Yibin Xia, Jing Sun, Karla Rocha
9. Deforestation and the World-as-Representation: The Maya Forest of Southern Belize
Joel Wainwright, Shiguo Jiang, and Desheng Liu
10. Shifting Spaces and Hidden Landscapes in Rural South Africa
Brian King
11. Political Ecology, Land Change Science and the Political Economy of Nature
Brent McCusker
12. The Intersection of Independent Lies: Land Change Science and Political Ecology
Rinku Roy Chowdhury
13. Two-Way Traffic across a Porous Border
Paul Robbins and B. L. Turner II
Biography
Christian Brannstrom is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, USA.
Jacqueline M. Vadjunec is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University, USA.
