ISBN:
9781783086719
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, "The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes" addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction Social Ecologies And Borderlands -- Border Landscapes: Charting New Territories -- Fluidity of Borders, Society and the Environment -- Border Ecologies and Edge Effects -- An Integrative Conceptual Framework -- Structure of this Volume -- NOTES -- Part I Frames: mapping social ecologies in border territories -- Chapter One On the Agency of Borderlands -- Introduction: Borderlands, Limits and Liminalities -- Borders Beyond our Territorialist and Geopolitical Traditions -- Borders, Ecology and Peace Parks -- Borders, Ecology and Globalization -- Borders, Power and Politics -- Borders, State Increase and Vacillation -- Conclusion: Borders, Here, There, Everywhere? -- NOTES -- Chapter Two Social Ecology and Transboundary Conservation: (RE)Connecting Nature and People in Borderlands -- Introduction -- The Rationale for and Definitions of Transboundary Conservation -- Global Trends and Distributions -- The Principles and Processes to be Applied for Successful Transboundary Conservation Initiatives -- Transboundary Conservation Principles: Building Trust, Confidence and Capacity -- The Processes from Pre-feasibility, to Feasibility, to Implementation, to Evaluation -- A Mechanism to Build Social Ecological Resilience -- The Evolution of Thinking within the Conservation Fraternity -- Nature's Value to Society -- A Mechanism to Promote Peace in Border Regions -- NOTES -- Chapter Three Social Ecologies and Structural Violence: Boundary-Making as Nature-Making in a Gated Globe -- Introduction: Boundary-Making as Nature-Making -- A Sense of Urgency -- Security Fencing -- Security Fencing in a "Borderless" World -- Security Fencing in a Bordering World: Walls and Gates -- Security Fencing as Structural Violence.
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