Overview
- Examines political economy and landscape change in ways that build upon but go beyond research on the political economy of environmental change
- Connects social research on landscape change with creative processes of landscape design
- Places of Power" encompasses a wide range of approaches from applied welfare economics to institutional and radical approaches. It strives to outline the "range of inquiry" available to scholars, designers, and societies
- Last but not least Places of Power builds on Kenneth Boulding’s theory in Three Faces of Power to demonstrate the landscape dimensions of "integrative power"
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 89)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Landscapes of Struggle, Possibility and Prosperity
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Front Matter
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Political and Economic Driving Forces of Landscape Change
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Integrative Landscape Change
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About this book
"Places of Power: Political Economies of Landscape Change" asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. This volume explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broad readership of landscape architects, geographers, and related fields of social and environmental research. The book consists of an introductory essay with nine chapters commissioned from leading geographers, landscape architects, political scientists, and economists, and a concluding essay on implications for future landscape inquiry and design.
The book is organized in three major sections. Part one, titled Landscapes of Struggle, Possibility, and Prosperity, includes a chapter on new axioms for reading the landscape followed by two chapters that read processes of economic development and distress in mountain landscapes of the U.S. and South America. Part Two on Political and Economic Driving Forces of Landscape Change includes two chapters each on political driving forces (political constructs and institutions) and economic driving forces (environmental economics and global financial markets). Part Three, titled Integrative Landscape Change compares innovative rural landscape policies in Europe and the U.S., and draws implications for future landscape inquiry, planning, and design.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Economies of Landscape Change
Book Subtitle: Places of Integrative Power
Editors: James L. Wescoat, Douglas M. Johnston
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5849-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5848-6Published: 20 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7456-0Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5849-3Published: 05 December 2007
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Topics: Human Geography, Economic Policy, Economic Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism