Overview

'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania. Stahl argues that the area's postsocialist transformations led to changes in the creation and distribution of resource rent, which shifted land users' incentives and productive decision-making and ultimately led to environmental change. 'Rent from the Land' brings together five years of research on Albanian transformation, and breaks new ground by discussing postsocialist transformation from a political ecology perspective.

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<p>This is a pioneering book. It presents one of the first ethnographic accounts of environmental change in Eastern Europe. It also makes an innovative conceptual contribution to political ecology by taking a new look at the classic concept of rent.' --Thomas Sikor, University of East Anglia

'What is most impressive about Stahl's approach [...] is the depth of his attention to 'doing' political ecology. There are many reasons to appreciate this book, not least of which is its clear prose and organization, which make it accessible to anyone unfamiliar with its theoretical or empirical context.' -Brian Grabbatin, 'Environment and Planning'

Author Information

Johannes Stahl works on natural resource governance and institutions in agriculture and forestry. He was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley and holds PhD and MA degrees in Agriculture and Social Anthropology.

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