Geography
Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper forms the introduction to a special issue of this journal entitled 'Environmental Histories, Access to Resources and Landscape Change', that poses challenges to the ways in which the multiple dimensions of resource degradation are understood, analyzed and acted upon in developing countries. The paper outlines a framework for understanding the complexity of land degradation processes, their impacts, and offers insights into their remediation. The framework builds on the work of regional political ecologists. It involves a widened conception of resource degradation; an explicit awareness of layered scales of analysis in both time and space; an emphasis on the mechanisms structuring and determining patterns of access to a range of resources that influence the use of the natural environment; an engagement with environmental history; and a sensitivity to the relevance and application of research effort.
Publication Title
Land Degradation and Development
Publication Date
1-1-1999
Volume
10
Issue
4
First Page
279
Last Page
289
ISSN
1085-3278
DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199907/08)10:4<279::AID-LDR364>3.0.CO;2-7
Keywords
access, environmental history, political ecology, relevance, resource degradation, scale
Repository Citation
Batterbury, S. P.J. and Bebbington, A. J., "Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction" (1999). Geography. 534.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/534