Lisa L. Gezon. Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar. Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, 2005. xiii + 225 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. References. Index. $72.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Author(s):  
Christian A. Kull
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Conservation Conflict ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals How can traditional livelihoods find a place in contemporary conservation politics debates in India? Understanding community perspectives in Sundarban, West Bengal

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrita Sen ◽  
Sarmistha Pattanaik
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Community Perspectives ◽  
Indian Sundarban ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
Conservation Conflict

Abstract We document the economic and socio-cultural vulnerability of a forest-dependent community inhabiting the forest fringe island of Satjelia in the Indian Sundarban. Using simple artisanal methods, they have practiced traditional livelihoods like fishing and collecting wild honey from the forests for more than a century. Despite having established cultural integrity and traditional occupations, this group is not indigenous, and are therefore treated as 'others' and 'settlers.' An ethnographic study describes these various forms of livelihoods and the ways that threatens local subsistence. We also document the bureaucratic and hierarchical structure of protected area (PA) management, showing it has little or no accommodation of this community's local traditional knowledge. Finally, we ask whether there is any scope for integrating 'non-indigenous' environmental knowledge, for a more egalitarian transformation of socio ecological relations within these communities. Keywords: Conservation, conflict, indigenous, political ecology, Sundarban, traditional livelihoods

scholarly journals Conservationist governmental technologies in the Western European mountains: the unfinished transformation of the Pyrenees

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Ismael Vaccaro ◽  
Oriol Beltran
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
European Mountains ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, using a political ecology framework, we examine the impacts of statemaking technologies in several areas of the Pyrenean mountain range, Spain. We describe processes of governmental territorialization in a European, non-colonial setting, stressing their effect on the conceptualization and management of natural resources. Conservation policies are a traditional locus of political ecology: as public policies devoted to natural resource management they embody the interaction between politics and ecology. The article has several analytical goals: a) to shift the emphasis of the political ecological analysis from an explanation of territorialization based on the tension between the first and third world, towards the impact of the conflictive relationship between cities and rural areas, b) to highlight the resilience and creativity of local agency in the face of massive political disruption in the form of public policies, c) to point out to the emergence of European policies and the new leisure economies as key elements of the contemporary reconstruction of the Western mountains, and d) underscore the unfinished character, or the ongoing nature, of the described process of political negotiation of rights of access and control of natural resources.Key Words: political ecology; Pyrenees; conservation; territorial control

scholarly journals Strategi Bersaing untuk Mengoptimalkan Kapasitas Produksi: Studi Kasus pada PT. Jaya Indah Casting, Bekasi

The Winners ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Purwanto Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
The Future ◽  
Study Case ◽  
And Control ◽  
Competitive Forces

Every company has to be able to adapt with the environment in order to survive in the middle of the condition as mentioned. Therefore, the management is supposed to manage their organization in a good manner and more professional to plan and control the company’s activities. PT. Jaya Indah Casting as a multinational company is selected as a study case for a research that aims to analyze the external and internal business environment; identify and evaluate business strategic implemented; find the future alternative strategic to be implemented by the company. The external business environment is analyzed by common business environment (economic, political, ecology and technology), Porter’s competitive forces, driving forces and key success factors. The internal business environment will be analyzed by SWOT method, organization structure, financial reports, process mapping, contingency plan and benchmarking, which altogether will be combined to formulate business strategic for the future. Results show that to survive the development and win the competition, PT. Jaya Indah Casting should implement growing strategic, operational strategic (new field and new product, new customer, quality and customer satisfaction), location and machine/tools maintenance.  

scholarly journals Conquest, Domination and Control: Europe’s Mastery of Nature in Historic Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Pattberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Ecological Imperialism ◽  
And Control

This article contributes to the broadening agenda of critical globalisation(s) research by analysing one of the most fundamental ideological foundations of the current global transformation in a historical perspective: the ideology of "domination over nature" that was implemented in Europe from 1500 onwards. Humans have always shaped and altered their environment according to their needs and aspirations. However, it is the distinct ideology of mastery and domination over nature that underlines this unprecedented enterprise. An ideology in this context is understood as a codified justification for social practices, codified in concrete as well as highly abstract systems of rule. The question I seek to answer in this contribution is why Europe – a backward civilisation up to the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance – was the birthplace of the distinct ideology of mastery over nature, globalising itself through exploration, discovery, and trade to nearly every corner of the planet. Key words: ideology of mastery, human-nature relations, ecological imperialism, historical political ecology

scholarly journals REDD+ Conflict: Understanding the Pathways between Forest Projects and Social Conflict

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 748
Author(s):  
Rowan Alumasa Alusiola ◽  
Janpeter Schilling ◽  
Paul Klär
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
New Forest ◽  
Key Events ◽  
And Control

A growing body of literature analyses the conflict implications of REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries). However, the way these conflicts unfold is little understood. We address this research gap through the following question: What are the pathways that connect REDD+ projects and conflicts between local communities and other actors? We review 242 scientific articles, selecting eight that allow us to trace how the conflict pathways unfolded. We draw on a political ecology perspective and conceptualize ‘conflict pathway’ as an interaction of key events and drivers leading to conflict. We find six main conflict drivers: (1) injustices and restrictions over (full) access and control of forest resources; (2) creation of new forest governance structures that change relationships between stakeholders and the forest; (3) exclusion of community members from comprehensive project participation; (4) high project expectations that are not met; (5) changes in land tenure policy due to migrants, and (6) the aggravation of historic land tenure conflicts. Evictions from forests, acts of violence, and lawsuits are among the events contributing to the conflict pathways. To prevent them, the rights, livelihoods, and benefits of local communities need to be placed at the centre of the REDD+ projects.

scholarly journals Politische Ökologie: nicht-deterministische, globale und materielle Dimensionen von Natur/Gesellschaft-Verhältnissen

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sybille Bauriedl
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Social Product ◽  
And Control

Abstract. Political ecology is a research field comprising studies with a critical perspective on human/nature-relations – critical in both a political and an epistemological sense. Fundamental questions of political ecology, here, are related to just and equal access to resources, their contribution and control, and to the regimes of regulation. The article specifies the empirical and epistemological approaches within political ecology in the last decades. It does not tell a linear history or a single story, because political ecology emerges out of a continuous process of mutual inspirations of academic debates and activist practices. The research strands in political ecology operate with different ideas on how to conceptionalize nature: as social product, technonature, hybrid, or as actant. These conceptualisations are related to different approaches of neo-Marxist and post-structural epistemology. This article discusses the present debate of political ecology in two steps. After introducing a broader perspective of what critique means in political ecology, it gives an account of the various approaches for analysis of both, geographies and materialities of uneven development. The early studies of political ecology explain human/nature-relations as socially produced, related to a Marxist understanding of historical materialism. In recent debates of political ecology, this approach was confronted with a new materialist thinking of more fluid interrelations between nature and non-nature; it also addresses postcolonial studies' claim to decentralize the perspectives on history and geography in order to understand new forms of connectivity of nature and culture.

scholarly journals Politische Ökologie und Politics of Scale – Vermittlungszusammenhänge zwischen Raum, Natur und Gesellschaft

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Brad
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Politics Of Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Foundation ◽  
Production Of Nature ◽  
And Control ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. Political ecology approaches examine how the relation between society and nature has historically and geographically evolved through material and discursive practices. This grounds a perspective which explore the social production of nature as a physical foundation of society. This article develops a conceptual framework to integrate the dimension of scale into political ecology. This allows political ecology approaches to understand social processes and the transformation of nature in the context of the production of scale. Against the background of palm oil production in Indonesia this article argues that combing political ecology and scale enhances our understanding of the way in which access to and control over natural resources change over time.

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