Overview
- This book is about planning, conservation, and land development issues in exurbia-areas of high natural amenity under pressure from real estate development. It is geared towards a senior undergraduate and graduate academic audience and the general educated public, including municipal officials and consultants
- The urban and regional planning literature, while concerned with growth management, does not focus rigorously on exurbia and therefore the book makes an important contribution to course readings for planning schools
- There is no existing political ecology book like this— comparing multiple case studies around the central organizing perspective of landscape change and solely focused on cases from the developed world (in this case the United States and Australia)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Comparative political ecology is used as an organizing concept throughout the book to describe the nature of exurban areas in the U.S. and Australia, although exurbs are common to many countries. The essays each describe distinctive case studies, with each chapter using the key concepts of competing rural capitalisms and uneven environmental management to describe the politics of exurban change. This systematic analysis makes the processes of exurban change easier to see and understand. Based on these case studies, seven characteristics of exurban places are identified: rural character, access, local economic change, ideologies of nature, changes in land management, coalition-building, and land-use planning.
This book will be of interest to those who study planning, conservation, and land development issues, especially in areas of high natural amenity or environmental value. There is no political ecology book quite like this—neither one solely focused on cases from the developed world (in this case the United States and Australia), nor one that specifically harnesses different case studies from multiple areas to develop a central organizing perspective of landscape change.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Patrick Hurley is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Ursinus College where he is an environmental social scientist interested in the politics of natural area conservation and plant foraging in city regions. He holds a PhD in Environmental Studies, Science and Policy from the University of Oregon, where his research on exurbia wonhim the Morris K. Udall Foundation’s Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. With Peter A. Walker, he is coauthor of the book, Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon, and written extensively on exurbia in the western and eastern United States.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Book Subtitle: Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Editors: Laura E. Taylor, Patrick T. Hurley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29462-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29460-5Published: 06 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80578-8Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29462-9Published: 26 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nature Conservation, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Ecology, Human Geography