Agriculture, Environment and Development International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics /

This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ioris, Antonio A.R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32255-1
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction: Underscoring Agribusiness Failures, Environmental Controversies and Growing Food Uncertainties
  • Chapter 2 - Water Governance and Agricultural Management: Collaboratively Dealing with Complex Policy Problems
  • Chapter 3 - Revisiting Food Studies from a Political Ecology Perspective: Lessons from Mediterranean Agri-food Systems
  • Chapter 4 - On the Climate of Scarcity and Crisis in the Rainfed Drylands of India
  • Chapter 5 - Water, Land, Socioterritorial Movements, Labour and Capital: Territorial Disputes and Conflictuality in Brazil
  • Chapter 6 - Environmental Impacts of Fruit Production in Brazil
  • Chapter 7 - Water Incorporated in Agricultural Production: Water Balance Considerations
  • Chapter 8 - Politics of Scale and Water Governance in the Upper Xingu Basin, Brazil
  • Chapter 9 - Controversial Frontiers of Agricultural Development and Environmental Change.