Search for dissertations about: "historical political ecology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words historical political ecology.

  2. 1. The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History

    Author : John Brolin; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; History and philosophy of the social sciences; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Ecology; political ecology; ecological footprint; emergy; underconsumptionism; post-Keynesian; unlimited supplies of labour; Prebisch-Singer; centre-periphery; terms of trade; staple thesis; ecologial economics; Marxist economics; classical economics; history of political economy; mercantilism; non-equvalent exchange; unequal exchange; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Ekologi; Samhällsvetenskapernas historia och filosofi;

    Abstract : This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. READ MORE

  4. 2. Landscapes of Dispossession : The Production of Space in Northern Tanintharyi, Myanmar

    Author : Mads Barbesgaard; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; production of space; Political economy; class differentiation; Political ecology; Agrarian Political Economy; landscape geography; dispossession; Myanmar; Geopolitics; Geoeconomics; Human Geography; Political economic geography; land grabbing; Ocean Grabbing; Green grabbing;

    Abstract : Since 2007, rural areas, particularly across the global south, have been ravaged by what has been dubbed a “global resource rush”. On the heels of this rush, a new wave of dispossession studies across the fields of agrarian political economy, human geography and political ecology is emerging. READ MORE

  5. 3. Time-space Appropriation in the Inka Empire : A Study of Imperial Metabolism

    Author : RAGNHEIDUR BOGADÓTTIR; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inka Empire; time-space appropriation; ecologically unequal exchange; historical political ecology; human ecology; imperial metabolism; economic anthropology;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes some aspects of the appropriation of labor time and natural space in the Inka Empire (ca. AD 1400 – 1532) in order to illuminate the cultural organization of Inka imperial metabolism. READ MORE

  6. 4. Resilient Landscapes: socio-environmental dynamics in the Shashi-Limpopo Basin, southern Zimbabwe c. AD 800 to the present

    Author : Munyaradze Manyanga; Paul Sinclair; Alinah Segobye; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Archaeology; Shashi-Limpopo Basin; landscapes; perceptions; floodplains; wetlands; drylands; ecology; socio-political complexity; local knowledge; climate change; seasonal variability; resilience; southern Africa; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : The general perception today is that the Shashi-Limpopo Basin in southern Africa is hot and dry and not conducive to human habitation. Today there is no doubt that the Shashi-Limpopo Basin has been home to many communities throughout the pre-historical period. READ MORE

  7. 5. Forests at the limits : forestry, land use and climate change from political ecology and environmental communication perspectives : the case of Chile & Sweden

    Author : Cristian Alarcon Ferrari; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on a comparative study of forest use and land use for forestry in Sweden and Chile. Processes of forestry development in the two countries are placed in relation to world forestry. READ MORE