Agriculture, Environment and Development International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ioris, Antonio A.R (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Environmental policy.; Human geography.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Policy.; Environmental Politics.; Climate Change.; Human Geography.

This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Introduction: Underscoring Agribusiness Failures, Environmental Controversies and Growing Food Uncertainties
• Chapter 2 - Water Governance and Agricultural Management: Collaboratively Dealing with Complex Policy Problems
• Chapter 3 - Revisiting Food Studies from a Political Ecology Perspective: Lessons from Mediterranean Agri-food Systems
• Chapter 4 - On the Climate of Scarcity and Crisis in the Rainfed Drylands of India
• Chapter 5 - Water, Land, Socioterritorial Movements, Labour and Capital: Territorial Disputes and Conflictuality in Brazil
• Chapter 6 - Environmental Impacts of Fruit Production in Brazil
• Chapter 7 - Water Incorporated in Agricultural Production: Water Balance Considerations
• Chapter 8 - Politics of Scale and Water Governance in the Upper Xingu Basin, Brazil
• Chapter 9 - Controversial Frontiers of Agricultural Development and Environmental Change.