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Author:   Angela Kronenburg García ,  Tobias Haller (University of Bern, Switzerland) ,  Han van Dijk ,  Cyrus Samimi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032005089

ISBN 10:   1032005084
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   13 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change PART 1: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES 2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands 3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER 4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and mining in Africa 5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate 6. The ‘open cut’ in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing 7. Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to disenchantments 8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation: Conserving drylands with or without people PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION, AND LIVELIHOODS 9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism 10. Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy 11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies PART 4: RESPONSES AND POTENTIALS 12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands 13. Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in drylands

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Angela Kronenburg García is an F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLouvain, Belgium, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. Tobias Haller is a Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Han van Dijk is a Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Cyrus Samimi is a Professor of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he also serves as Vice Dean of Digital Solutions in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple. Jeroen Warner is a Senior Associate Professor of Crisis and Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

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