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dc.contributor.editorKronenburg García, Angela
dc.contributor.editorHaller, Tobias
dc.contributor.editorvan Dijk, Han
dc.contributor.editorSamimi, Cyrus
dc.contributor.editorWarner, Jeroen
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-07T12:51:46Z
dc.date.available2023-02-07T12:51:46Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61192
dc.description.abstractThis 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEarthscan Studies in Natural Resource Managementen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interesten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental managementen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interesten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocolsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technologyen_US
dc.subject.otherNature and the natural world: general interest;Applied ecology;Conservation of the environment;Environmental management;The Earth: natural history: general interest;Environmental policy and protocols;Environmental science, engineering and technologyen_US
dc.titleDrylands Facing Changeen_US
dc.title.alternativeInterventions, Investments and Identitiesen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003174486en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781003174486en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032005089en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032005102en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032393513en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages283en_US


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