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Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities
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SYSNO ASEP 0584386 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy Author(s) Hashimshony-Yaffe, N. (IL)
Zhan, Q. (CN)
Alhuseen, Ahmed (UEK-B) ORCID, SAI, RIDNumber of authors 3 Source Title Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities. - London : Routledge, 2022 / Kronenburg García Angela ; Haller Tobias ; van Dijk Han ; Samimi Cyrus ; Warner Jeroen - ISBN 9781003174486 Pages s. 174-192 Number of pages 18 s. Number of pages 282 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords adaptation strategies ; sudan ; urbanization ; drylands Subject RIV AO - Sociology, Demography OECD category Cultural and economic geography R&D Projects LTC18072 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Research Infrastructure CzeCOS III - 90123 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i. Institutional support UEK-B - RVO:86652079 UT WOS 001009501000010 EID SCOPUS 85141625326 DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003174486 Annotation This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as ‘wastelands’ and their ‘backward’ inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security, and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland’s point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers, and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development, and drylands in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Workplace Global Change Research Institute Contact Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003174486/drylands-facing-change-angela-kronenburg-garc%C3%ADa-tobias-haller-cyrus-samimi-han-van-dijk-jeroen-warner
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