Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice) - Hardcover

Boykoff, Maxwell T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754649717 ISBN 13: 9780754649717

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this book brings together case studies from across the globe to present significant cutting-edge research into political ecologies as they relate to multi-form contestations over environments, resources and livelihoods. Covering a range of issues, such as popular discourses of environmental 'collapse', climate change, water resource struggles, displacement, agro-food landscapes and mapping technologies, this edited volume works to provide a broad and critical understanding of the narratives and policies more subtly shaping and being shaped by underlying environmental conflicts. By exploring the power-laden processes by which environmental knowledge is generated, framed, communicated and interpreted, Contentious Geographies works to reveal how environmental conflicts can be (re)considered and thus (re)opened to enhance efforts to negotiate more sustainable environments and livelihoods.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Michael K. Goodman is a Lecturer in Geography at King's College London, UK, Dr Maxwell T. Boykoff, is a Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Dr Kyle T. Evered, is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754649717
• ISBN 13: 9780754649717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Goodman Michael K.