Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods: Smallholders Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3038423424 ISBN 13: 9783038423423

Verlag: MDPI, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the USA, with greatest emphasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human–environment systems. Overall these studies show that smallholder studies are more pertinent than ever, especially in the face of finite resources and global environmental change.

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Utah State University USA

Oklahoma State University USA

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MDPI
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3038423424
• ISBN 13: 9783038423423
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
• Herausgeber: Radel Claudia A., Vadjunec Jacqueline M.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar