"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’
Through a series of ethnographic studies that range from Papua New Guinea to Siberia, Brazil to Namibia, Ethnographies of Conservation argues that the problem is not the disappearance of “pristine nature” or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, critical attention would be better turned on discourses of “primitiveness” and “pristine nature,” so prevalent within conservation ideology.
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
John M. Francis discusses nature conservation and the precautionary principle.
Anja Nygren analyses the social and political discourses related to environment and sustainable development in Costa Rica.
Nigel Dower discusses human development in relation to environmental ethics.
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.
By investigating landscape change and land reform in Northwest Scotland, this study illustrates how the multifaceted concept of landscape mediates cultural, social and political issues, and is continually evolving in response to aesthetic, ideological and institutional agencies.