Development in place : Perspectives and challenges

In humanitys struggle to find timely solutions to environmental problems, it is easily forgotten that access to our shared spaces has never been equal. This collection deals with the landscapes and places of rural, urban, and wilderness areas in relation development. Contributions examine the complex relationship that human beings maintain with their rural and urban environments and with other species in various places and spaces. Nothing is taken for granted: colonial history, globaliation, localiation, hybrid relationships, colonial or ""shared""architecture, religious backgrounds, and claim

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	van Santen, José C.M.
Publisher:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Subject:	Entwicklung \| Economic development \| Ländliche Entwicklung \| Rural development \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Landschaftsschutz \| Landscape conservation \| Tierhaltung \| Animal husbandry \| Urbanisierung \| Urbanization \| Indigene Völker \| Indigenous peoples \| Naturschutz \| Nature conservation \| Tierschutz \| Animal protection \| Agrarsoziologie \| Rural sociology
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (385 p)
Series:	Antropologie academie ; d. 6
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Development in Place : Perspectives and Challenges; Inhoud; Development in Place: Perspectives and Challenges; On Rurality, Rural Development and Rural Sociology; Division of Labour,Production, Reproduction and the Household: a Continuing Debate; 'New Nature': On the Production of a Paradox; Individualizationof Livestock Ownership in Fulbe Family Herds: the Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal in Northern Cameroon; The 'Heart of Borneo': Transboundary Conservation and its Challenges; Creating Space for Crocodiles: Environmental Governance in the Philippines Reconstruction of a Society: Indigenous Perceptions of Land and Ecuadorian State Law among the Tsáchila of Northwest Ecuador'Giving a Voice to the Elephant': The Intricate Relation between Wildlife,Local Populations and Global Actors in North Cameroon; Exclusive Cities: Space, Social Capital and Urban Fragmentation in Jamaica and Curaçao; Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: Built Heritage in Two Indonesian Cities, Jakarta and Yogyakarta; Batanghari Sembilan: Cultural Landscapes, Centres, and Underground Streams in the Southern Sumatran Highlands; About the authors Development in place: perspectives and challenges / José van SantenOn rurality, rural development and rural sociology / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg -- Division of labour, production, reproduction and the household: a continuing debate / José van Santen -- 'New nature': on the production of a paradox / Maarten Onneweer -- Individualization of livestock ownership in Fulbe family herds: the effects of pastoral intensification and Islamic renewal in Northern Cameroon / Mark Moritz -- The 'heart of Borneo': transboundary conservation and its challenges / Gerard A. Persoon -- Creating space for crocodiles: environmental governance in the Philippines / Jan van der Ploeg and Merlijn van Weerd -- Reconstruction of a society: indigenous perceptions of land and Ecuadorian state law among the Tsáchila of Northwest Ecuador / Fabiola Jara and Katrien Klep -- 'Giving a voice to the elephant': the intricate relation between wildlife, local populations and global actors in North Cameroon / José van Santen -- Exclusive cities: space, social capital and urban fragmentation in Jamaica and Curaçao / Rivke Jaffe -- Transcending postcolonial conditions: built heritage in two Indonesian cities, Jakarta and Yogyakarta -- Peter Nas and Barbara Ten Hengel -- Batanghari Sembilan: cultural landscapes, centres, and underground streams in the Southern Sumatran Highlands / Bart Barendregt.
ISBN:	978-90-5260-289-9 ; 90-5260-289-1 ; 978-90-485-2113-5 ; 978-90-5260-289-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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