| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
GeoJournal library ; v. 89 |
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GeoJournal library ; v. 89
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| Contents |
Introduction: Three faces of power in landscape change / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- New axioms for reading the landscape : paying attention to political economy and social justice / Don Mitchell -- Landscapes of possibility? Livelihood and intervention in the production of Andean landscapes / Anthony J. Bebbington -- Moving to the mountains : amenity migration in the Sierra and Southern Appalachian Mountains / Kurt Culbertson [and others] -- Constructing the politics of landscape change / Susan E. Clarke -- Institutional dynamics, spatial organization, and landscape change / Tome P. Evans, Abigail M. York, Elinor Ostrom -- Green landscapes : exogenous economic benefits of environmental improvement / Douglas Johnston, John Braden -- Pricing the economic landscape : global financial markets and the communities and institutions of risk management / Terry L. Babcock-Lumish, Gordon L. Clark -- The globalized landscape : rural landscape change and policy in the United States and European Union / J.I. Nassauer, D.M. Wascher -- Implications for future landscape inquiry, planning, and design / Douglas M. Johnston, James L. Wescoat, Jr |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Landscape changes -- Economic aspects
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Urban landscape architecture.
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Landscape changes -- Political aspects
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Land use -- Economic aspects
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Land use -- Political aspects
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urban landscapes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences sociales.
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Land use -- Political aspects
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Land use -- Economic aspects
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Urban landscape architecture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wescoat, James L., 1952-
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Johnston, Douglas M
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| ISBN |
9781402058493 |
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1402058497 |
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9781402058486 |
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1402058489 |
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9786611137922 |
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6611137920 |
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