Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities (Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management)

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This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as ‘wastelands’ and their ‘backward’ inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents　the dryland’s point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied.　 This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development and drylands in general.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Size:
258 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000802566
Related ISBNs:
9781003174486, 9781032393513, 9781032005102, 9781032005089
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Angela Kronenburg García, Tobias Haller, Han van Dijk, Cyrus Samimi, and Jeroen Warner
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Angela Kronenburg Garcia
Edited by:
Tobias Haller
Edited by:
Han van Dijk
Edited by:
Cyrus Samimi
Edited by:
Jeroen Warner

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