Title DRYLANDS FACING CHANGE; INTERVENTIONS, INVESTMENTS AND IDENTITIES

Published ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Earthscan studies in natural resource management Earthscan studies in natural resource management. Summary This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as wastelands' and their backward' inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security, and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland's point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers, and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development, and drylands in general Notes Angela Kronenburg García is an F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLouvain, Belgium, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. Tobias Haller is a Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Han van Dijk is a Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Cyrus Samimi is a Professor of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he also serves as Vice Dean of Digital Solutions in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple. Jeroen Warner is a Senior Associate Professor of Crisis and Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands Subject Arid regions. Dry farming. Arid regions agriculture. NATURE / General NATURE / Ecology NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection Arid regions Arid regions agriculture Dry farming Form Electronic book Author Kronenburg García, Angela. Haller, Tobias. Dijk, Han van, 1961- Samimi, Cyrus. Warner, Jeroen. ISBN 1000802566 9781000802566 9781003174486 1003174485 9781000802535 1000802531

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