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Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability

Orientations for Contemporary Research

Editors:

  1. Marina Fischer-Kowalski

    1. Institute of Social Ecology Alpen Adria University, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Anette Reenberg

    1. Dept. Geosciences & Resource Mgmt, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark

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  3. Anke Schaffartzik

    1. Institute of Social Ecology Alpen Adria University, Vienna, Austria

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  4. Andreas Mayer

    1. Institute of Social Ecology Alpen Adria University, Vienna, Austria

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  • The first comprehensive scientific publication on the life and work of Ester Boserup one of the pioneers of sustainability research

  • Includes contributions from experts in a wide range of disciplines: agricultural sciences, biology, geography, history, ecology, landscape planning, physics, sociology, environmental sciences and economics

  • Presents a cross-section of contemporary sustainability research, with a special focus on the role of society-nature interrelations, agriculture and gender

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Human-Environment Interactions (HUEN, volume 4)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability

      • B. L. Turner II, Marina Fischer-Kowalski
      Pages 3-11Open Access

    4. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions

      • Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Andreas Mayer, Anke Schaffartzik
      Pages 23-42Open Access

  3. Land Use, Technology and Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    3. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity

      • Karlheinz Erb, Maria Niedertscheider, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Christoph Schmitz, Peter H. Verburg, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen et al.
      Pages 61-86Open Access

    5. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750–2000)

      • Juan Infante-Amate, Manuel González de Molina, Tom Vanwalleghem, David Soto Fernández, José Alfonso Gómez
      Pages 99-116Open Access

    6. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development

      • Lisa Ringhofer, Simron Jit Singh, Marina Fischer-Kowalski
      Pages 117-138Open Access

  4. Population and Gender

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    4. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa

      • Ngozi M. Nwakeze, Anke Schaffartzik
      Pages 175-187Open Access

    6. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters

      • Birgit Schmook, Claudia Radel, Ana Crisol Méndez-Medina
      Pages 203-219Open Access

    7. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria

      • Barbara Smetschka, Veronika Gaube, Juliana Lutz
      Pages 221-238Open Access

    9. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume

      • Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg
      Pages 259-265Open Access
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About this book

Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and sustainability.
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Keywords

  • Ester Boserup
  • Socio-ecological transitions
  • contemporary sustainability research
  • society-nature interrelations
  • women and gender in agriculture
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social Ecology Alpen Adria University, Vienna, Austria

    Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer

  • Dept. Geosciences & Resource Mgmt, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark

    Anette Reenberg

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability

  • Book Subtitle: Orientations for Contemporary Research

  • Editors: Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer

  • Series Title: Human-Environment Interactions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8678-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2014

  • License: CC BY-NC

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8677-5Published: 02 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8680-5Published: 22 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8678-2Published: 19 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2214-2339

  • Series E-ISSN: 2452-1744

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Gender Studies, Ecosystems, Human Geography

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