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Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina.
Other Authors: Reenberg, Anette., Schaffartzik, Anke., Mayer, Andreas.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2014.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Human-Environment Interactions Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • About the Authors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Part I Ester Boserup's Intellectual Heritage
  • Chapter 1 Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability
  • 1.1 Background
  • 1.2 Agricultural Change
  • 1.3 Women in Development
  • 1.4 Appreciating an Innovative Scholar
  • References
  • Chapter 2"Finding Out Is My Life": Conversationswith Ester Boserup in the 1990s
  • 2.1 Conversations
  • 2.2 An Analytical Framework for Development Theory
  • 2.3 Selected Applications
  • 2.4 Boserup in Self-Perception
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Boserup's Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Boserup's Main Theoretical Propositions, and her Efforts at an Empirical Proof
  • 3.3 Understanding Qualitative Change: Sociometabolic Regimes
  • 3.3.1 The Green Revolution
  • 3.4 Examples of Later Research Findings that Could Have Been Anticipated from Boserup's Theory
  • 3.4.1 Example 1: On the Non-Linearity Between Population and Land Requirement
  • 3.4.2 Example 2: Generalizing the Thesis of Non-Linearity to Other Resources
  • 3.4.3 Example 3: On the Role of Development and Population Density in Driving Resource Use
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture
  • Chapter 4 The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change
  • -a Case from the South West Pacific
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Our Theoretical and Conceptual Lenses
  • 4.2.1 Agricultural Intensification and Innovation
  • 4.2.2 A Diagrammatic Heuristic
  • 4.3 Land Use and Population Change on Bellona
  • 4.3.1 Changing Population Pressure
  • 4.3.2 Land Use Dynamics
  • 4.3.3 Land use change seen through a theoretical lens
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • References.
  • Chapter 5 Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Boserup's Notion of Land-Use Intensification
  • 5.3 Measuring Land-Use Intensity
  • 5.3.1 The Technical Efficiency Approach
  • 5.3.2 The -Factor
  • 5.3.3 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production
  • 5.3.4 Global Patterns of Land-Use Intensity Derived Using the Three Approaches
  • 5.4 Comparison of the Three Approaches
  • 5.4.1 Conceptual Differences
  • 5.4.2 Spatial Patterns of Land-Use Intensity
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models
  • 6.1 Transitions to Agriculture
  • 6.2 Models of Population, Production, and Innovation
  • 6.3 A Combined Model and ``Real'' World Application
  • 6.4 Innovation in Transitions to Agriculture
  • 6.5 Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Reduced GLUES Model
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750
  • 2000)
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Case Study in the Mountains of Southern Spain
  • 7.3 From a Pastoral System to a Specialisation in Olive Production
  • 7.3.1 Agrarian Change in Preindustrial Agriculture
  • 7.3.2 Specialisation in Olive Growing and the Major Transformation of the twentieth Century
  • 7.4 The Impacts of Agrarian Change: The Problems of Soil Erosion and Soil Fertility
  • 7.4.1 Managing Land Fertility
  • 7.4.2 Soil Erosion in Olive Orchards: A Long-Term Perspective
  • 7.5 Conclusion: A Sociometabolic Approach to Agrarian Intensification and Soil Degradation
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Theoretical Assumptions, Concepts and Methods
  • 8.2.1 Returning to Boserup and Introducing Sociometabolic Concepts.
  • 8.2.2 Human Time as a Biophysical Resource
  • 8.2.2.1 Labour Time Studies Revisited
  • 8.3 Description of the Cases
  • 8.3.1 Introducing Trinket, Campo Bello, Sabawas, and Nalang
  • 8.3.2 Methods of Data Collection on Time Use
  • 8.4 Findings
  • 8.4.1 Land and Labour Productivity
  • 8.4.2 Overall Labour Time Investment in the Different Communities
  • 8.4.2.1 Gender Differences in Labour Time
  • 8.4.2.2 The Contribution of Children to Labour Time
  • 8.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part III Population and Gender
  • Chapter 9 Following Boserup's Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women's Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces
  • 9.1 Introduction: Reconceptualisations
  • 9.2 Following Ester Boserup's Traces
  • 9.3 Processes of Gendered Structuration and Informalisation
  • 9.4 Gendered Embeddedness of the Economy
  • 9.5 Food and Social Security, Natural Resource Entitlements
  • 9.6 Producing Knowledge and Negotiating Development in Translocal Gendered Spaces
  • 9.7 Conclusion: From Women's Roles to Engendering Development
  • References
  • Chapter 10 Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas
  • 10.1 Contrasting Case Studies
  • 10.2 Uttarakhand
  • -Dominated by Female Farming Systems
  • 10.3 Low CSR
  • -Bin Block, Pithoragarh Tehsil
  • 10.4 High CSR
  • -Mori Block, Puraula Tehsil
  • 10.5 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 11 Revisiting Boserup's Hypotheses in the Context of Africa
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 The Status of African Women from the Pre-Colonial Era to the Post-Colonial Era
  • 11.3 The Role of African Women in Food Production and Agriculture
  • 11.4 Women's Lack of Control over the Means of Production
  • 11.5 Are Human Development, Economic Growth, and the Status of Females Interrelated?.
  • 11.6 Fertility Transition in Africa
  • 11.7 Conclusions: The Relevance of Boserup's Theories in Twenty-first Century Africa
  • References
  • Chapter 12 An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup's Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Boserup on Agricultural Intensification
  • 12.3 Background on Large-Scale Land Deals
  • 12.4 Large-Scale Land Deals as a Contemporary Example of Agricultural Intensification
  • 12.5 Boserup, Gender and the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate
  • 12.6 Integrating Gender into the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate
  • 12.7 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 13 Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Labour Migration, Gender, and Productive Assets: A Review of the Literature
  • 13.3 Methods
  • 13.4 Husbands' Migration and Wives' Land Assets
  • 13.5 Daughters' Migration and Daughters' Land and Cattle Assets
  • 13.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 14 Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria
  • 14.1 Why Link to Boserup's Approach?
  • 14.2 The ``GenderGAP'' Project
  • -An Austrian Case Study
  • 14.3 Sustainability Research, Gender Issues and Quality of Life
  • 14.3.1 The Sustainability Triangle
  • 14.3.2 Time-Use Approach as a Means for Analysing Changes in Gender Relations
  • 14.3.3 Quality of Life: Time Use as a Bridging Concept Between Sustainability and Social Issues
  • 14.4 Agent-Based, Participatory Modelling and Scenario Results
  • 14.4.1 Agent-Based Model of Two Villages
  • 14.4.2 Participatory Modelling
  • 14.4.3 Building Scenarios and Model Results
  • 14.5 Sustainable Agriculture in Austria in Light of Ester Boserup
  • References.
  • Chapter 15 A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development
  • 15.1 Making Women Visible
  • 15.2 The International Recognition of Women and Gender in Development
  • 15.3 Rural Gender and Women's Studies
  • 15.4 Criticism of Boserup and Her Terminology
  • 15.5 Gender Order Rather than Women's Role
  • 15.6 What is ``Natural'' About Nature?
  • 15.7 A Human Ecological Approach to Boserup
  • 15.7.1 Duncan's Ecological Complex
  • 15.8 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 16 Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume
  • 16.1 In What Ways Did Ester Boserup's Work Influencethe Research Agenda of the Contributors to this Volume?
  • 16.1.1 Population Growth Leading into a Malthusian Trap or to Productive Innovations?
  • 16.1.2 Land Use Intensification and its Drivers
  • 16.1.3 Labour Time and Labour Productivity
  • 16.1.4 Genderizing Development
  • 16.2 In What Respects Does the Research Presented in this Volume Transgress, or Even Contradict, Boserup's Work?
  • References
  • ERRATUM "Finding Out Is My Life": Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s
  • ERRATUM Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability
  • Bibliography.

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