Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : : Orientations for Contemporary Research.

• Superior document: Human-Environment Interactions Series ; v.4
• Author: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina.
• TeilnehmendeR: Reenberg, Anette.; Schaffartzik, Anke.; Mayer, Andreas.
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht : : Springer Netherlands,, 2014.; Ã2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human-Environment Interactions Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• Contributors
• About the Authors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Part I Ester Boserup's Intellectual Heritage
• Chapter 1 Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability
• 1.1 Background
• 1.2 Agricultural Change
• 1.3 Women in Development
• 1.4 Appreciating an Innovative Scholar
• References
• Chapter 2"Finding Out Is My Life": Conversationswith Ester Boserup in the 1990s
• 2.1 Conversations
• 2.2 An Analytical Framework for Development Theory
• 2.3 Selected Applications
• 2.4 Boserup in Self-Perception
• 2.5 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3 Boserup's Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Boserup's Main Theoretical Propositions, and her Efforts at an Empirical Proof
• 3.3 Understanding Qualitative Change: Sociometabolic Regimes
• 3.3.1 The Green Revolution
• 3.4 Examples of Later Research Findings that Could Have Been Anticipated from Boserup's Theory
• 3.4.1 Example 1: On the Non-Linearity Between Population and Land Requirement
• 3.4.2 Example 2: Generalizing the Thesis of Non-Linearity to Other Resources
• 3.4.3 Example 3: On the Role of Development and Population Density in Driving Resource Use
• 3.5 Conclusion
• References
• Part II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture
• Chapter 4 The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change---a Case from the South West Pacific
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Our Theoretical and Conceptual Lenses
• 4.2.1 Agricultural Intensification and Innovation
• 4.2.2 A Diagrammatic Heuristic
• 4.3 Land Use and Population Change on Bellona
• 4.3.1 Changing Population Pressure
• 4.3.2 Land Use Dynamics
• 4.3.3 Land use change seen through a theoretical lens
• 4.4 Conclusion
• References.
• Chapter 5 Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Boserup's Notion of Land-Use Intensification
• 5.3 Measuring Land-Use Intensity
• 5.3.1 The Technical Efficiency Approach
• 5.3.2 The -Factor
• 5.3.3 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production
• 5.3.4 Global Patterns of Land-Use Intensity Derived Using the Three Approaches
• 5.4 Comparison of the Three Approaches
• 5.4.1 Conceptual Differences
• 5.4.2 Spatial Patterns of Land-Use Intensity
• 5.5 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 6 Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models
• 6.1 Transitions to Agriculture
• 6.2 Models of Population, Production, and Innovation
• 6.3 A Combined Model and ``Real'' World Application
• 6.4 Innovation in Transitions to Agriculture
• 6.5 Conclusion
• Appendix: The Reduced GLUES Model
• References
• Chapter 7 Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750--2000)
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Case Study in the Mountains of Southern Spain
• 7.3 From a Pastoral System to a Specialisation in Olive Production
• 7.3.1 Agrarian Change in Preindustrial Agriculture
• 7.3.2 Specialisation in Olive Growing and the Major Transformation of the twentieth Century
• 7.4 The Impacts of Agrarian Change: The Problems of Soil Erosion and Soil Fertility
• 7.4.1 Managing Land Fertility
• 7.4.2 Soil Erosion in Olive Orchards: A Long-Term Perspective
• 7.5 Conclusion: A Sociometabolic Approach to Agrarian Intensification and Soil Degradation
• References
• Chapter 8 Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Theoretical Assumptions, Concepts and Methods
• 8.2.1 Returning to Boserup and Introducing Sociometabolic Concepts.
• 8.2.2 Human Time as a Biophysical Resource
• 8.2.2.1 Labour Time Studies Revisited
• 8.3 Description of the Cases
• 8.3.1 Introducing Trinket, Campo Bello, Sabawas, and Nalang
• 8.3.2 Methods of Data Collection on Time Use
• 8.4 Findings
• 8.4.1 Land and Labour Productivity
• 8.4.2 Overall Labour Time Investment in the Different Communities
• 8.4.2.1 Gender Differences in Labour Time
• 8.4.2.2 The Contribution of Children to Labour Time
• 8.5 Conclusions
• References
• Part III Population and Gender
• Chapter 9 Following Boserup's Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women's Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces
• 9.1 Introduction: Reconceptualisations
• 9.2 Following Ester Boserup's Traces
• 9.3 Processes of Gendered Structuration and Informalisation
• 9.4 Gendered Embeddedness of the Economy
• 9.5 Food and Social Security, Natural Resource Entitlements
• 9.6 Producing Knowledge and Negotiating Development in Translocal Gendered Spaces
• 9.7 Conclusion: From Women's Roles to Engendering Development
• References
• Chapter 10 Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas
• 10.1 Contrasting Case Studies
• 10.2 Uttarakhand---Dominated by Female Farming Systems
• 10.3 Low CSR---Bin Block, Pithoragarh Tehsil
• 10.4 High CSR---Mori Block, Puraula Tehsil
• 10.5 Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 11 Revisiting Boserup's Hypotheses in the Context of Africa
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 The Status of African Women from the Pre-Colonial Era to the Post-Colonial Era
• 11.3 The Role of African Women in Food Production and Agriculture
• 11.4 Women's Lack of Control over the Means of Production
• 11.5 Are Human Development, Economic Growth, and the Status of Females Interrelated?.
• 11.6 Fertility Transition in Africa
• 11.7 Conclusions: The Relevance of Boserup's Theories in Twenty-first Century Africa
• References
• Chapter 12 An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup's Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Boserup on Agricultural Intensification
• 12.3 Background on Large-Scale Land Deals
• 12.4 Large-Scale Land Deals as a Contemporary Example of Agricultural Intensification
• 12.5 Boserup, Gender and the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate
• 12.6 Integrating Gender into the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate
• 12.7 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 13 Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters
• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Labour Migration, Gender, and Productive Assets: A Review of the Literature
• 13.3 Methods
• 13.4 Husbands' Migration and Wives' Land Assets
• 13.5 Daughters' Migration and Daughters' Land and Cattle Assets
• 13.6 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 14 Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria
• 14.1 Why Link to Boserup's Approach?
• 14.2 The ``GenderGAP'' Project---An Austrian Case Study
• 14.3 Sustainability Research, Gender Issues and Quality of Life
• 14.3.1 The Sustainability Triangle
• 14.3.2 Time-Use Approach as a Means for Analysing Changes in Gender Relations
• 14.3.3 Quality of Life: Time Use as a Bridging Concept Between Sustainability and Social Issues
• 14.4 Agent-Based, Participatory Modelling and Scenario Results
• 14.4.1 Agent-Based Model of Two Villages
• 14.4.2 Participatory Modelling
• 14.4.3 Building Scenarios and Model Results
• 14.5 Sustainable Agriculture in Austria in Light of Ester Boserup
• References.
• Chapter 15 A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development
• 15.1 Making Women Visible
• 15.2 The International Recognition of Women and Gender in Development
• 15.3 Rural Gender and Women's Studies
• 15.4 Criticism of Boserup and Her Terminology
• 15.5 Gender Order Rather than Women's Role
• 15.6 What is ``Natural'' About Nature?
• 15.7 A Human Ecological Approach to Boserup
• 15.7.1 Duncan's Ecological Complex
• 15.8 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 16 Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume
• 16.1 In What Ways Did Ester Boserup's Work Influencethe Research Agenda of the Contributors to this Volume?
• 16.1.1 Population Growth Leading into a Malthusian Trap or to Productive Innovations?
• 16.1.2 Land Use Intensification and its Drivers
• 16.1.3 Labour Time and Labour Productivity
• 16.1.4 Genderizing Development
• 16.2 In What Respects Does the Research Presented in this Volume Transgress, or Even Contradict, Boserup's Work?
• References
• ERRATUM "Finding Out Is My Life": Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s
• ERRATUM Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability
• Bibliography.