ISBN:
9781501768996
,
9781501769009
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 248 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Environments of East Asia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rodenbiker, Jesse Ecological States
DDC:
304.20951
Keywords:
Ecology Political aspects
;
Human ecology
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
China
;
Politische Ökologie
;
Macht
;
Kunming Region
;
Chengdu
;
Dali
;
Naturschutz
Abstract:
"This book analyzes how science-based nature protection campaigns are transforming society and the environment through extensive fieldwork in China's southwestern cities. Furthermore, it examines the role of ecology in constituting state power and social inequality"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Ecological States -- Making Ecology Developmental -- Botany, Beauty, Purification -- Ecological Territorialization -- Ecological Migrations, Volumetric Aspirations -- Rural Redux -- Infrastructural Diffusion -- Global Ecological Futures.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
