Political ecology, the environment and Development
Selected papers from the Development online archive
Development has aimed to catalyze the debate amongst policy, academia and social movements on critical aspects of development theories, introducing alternative views points on environmental, ecological and social challenges faced by North and South.
In 2008 the entire volume will be devoted to the environment and development. To accompany this key resource, a selection of leading papers has been made available from past issues of Development from 1999 to 2007. This collection together with an editorial and two book reviews illustrate the journal’s contributions to environmental justice, political ecology and natural resource management. The brief selection presents possible alternatives to mainstream positions on globalization, North-South relationships, environmental rights, gender inequities and social justice. For free access to these articles click on the links below.
Editorial: Conflict, Ecological Justice and Rights FREE
Volume 49 Number 3: Conflicts over Natural Resources (2006)
Wendy Harcourt, Editor of Development, outlines alternative views to the dominant approach to natural resource conflict.
Environment and Human Rights FREE
Volume 47 Number 1: The Violence of Development (2004)
Wolfgang Sachs argues for environmental human rights as a fundamental prerequisite to end the violence of development.
Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement FREE
Volume 49 Number 3: Conflicts over Natural Resources (2006)
Dana E. Powell, indigenous rights activist from the USA, proposes an alternative approach to development for healthy economies, ecologies and culture.
Monocultures, Monopolies, Myths and the Masculinization of Agriculture FREE
Volume 42 Number 2: Environmental Politics (1999)
Challenges the assumption that Third World women farmers are partners in the projects of genetic engineering of crops and patenting of seed. Vandana Shiva argues that women must resist the attempt by the biotechnology industry, agribusiness as well as governments to co-opt them.
Women, Land Rights and the Environment: The Kenyan Experience FREE
Volume 49 Number 3: Conflicts over Natural Resources (2006)
Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Professor at the International Environmental Law Research Centre in Nairobi, calls for women to have legal rights to land in order to ensure good stewardship and sustained community livelihoods.
The Political Economy of Natural Resource Conflict in the Lower Mekong Sub-region FREE
Volume 42 Number 2: Environmental Politics (1999)
Kamal Malhotra argues that the conflict and competition over natural resources in South East Asia cannot be explained by one factor alone, rather it is largely the product of the interplay between the different economic development models pursued in the region and the particular manifestation of some key aspects of current dominant patterns of globalization.
Book Reviews FREE
Volume 42 Number 2: Environmental Politics (1999)
Greening the north: a post-industrial blueprint for ecology and equity, Wolfgang Sachs
The post-corporate world: life after capitalism, David Korten
These articles represent just a small selection of the material as a teaser to the in depth and focused Volume on political ecology in 2008. For more information go to:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/archive/2008_issues.html
