The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes

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Collection of essays on social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.

The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.

Introduction: Social Ecologies and Borderlands; Part I: Frames: Mapping Social Ecologies in Border Territories; 1. On the Agency of Borderlands; 2. Social Ecology and Transboundary Conservation: (Re-) Connecting Nature and People in Borderlands; 3. Social Ecologies as “Gated Ecologies”; Part II: Bridges: Resilience, Restoration and Reclamation; 4. Borders as Zones of Experiential Learning: The Case of the Balkans Peace Park Initiative; 5. Social Ecologies in Borderlands: Crane Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Agriculture Project in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; 6. Socio-Ecological Transformations in Riparian Zones: The Production of Spaces of Exclusion and the Uneven Development of Resilience in the Sonoran Borderlands ; 7. From No-Man’s Land to Every-Man’s Land: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Reclaiming Shared Spaces in Border Landscapes, with Examples from Germany and Cyprus; Part III: Corridors: Catalysts and Collaboration in Confined Spaces; 8. Ensuring Hope in Militarized Landscapes: The Case of Lebanon; 9. Domesticating and Enlarging One’s Territory: Day-to-Day Politics in a Confined Space—The Shu’Fat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem; 10. Urban Alternatives and Collaborative Economics in Belfast’s Contested Space; Part IV: Portals: Dialogue, Exception and Reterritorialization; 11. Australia Day: A Social Ecology Dialogue across Aboriginal and White Cultures; 12. Re-Legislating the Soil: Enclosures and Exception at the Amazon Frontiers; 13. Mediterranean Edges: Reterritorializing Natural and Social Ecologies; Making Sense of Social Ecology, Borders and the Environment: A Conclusion; Index.

Sujets

• Social sciences
• Human geography
• Architecture

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 02 mai 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783086719
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
The Anthem Series on International Environmental Policy and Agreements
The Anthem Series on International Environmental Policy and Agreements seeks to consolidate research on global environmental governance, providing a prescriptive policy-making agenda based on sound analysis and empirical insights. A planetary vision of environmental governance has been growing over the past several decades and is often operationalized through international environmental agreements. Even though such treaties are often nonbinding and have marginal punitive power against violators, they are gaining credibility in international relations. This series focuses on evidence-based research that helps strength the “system” of multinational environmental decision making and governance.
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Saleem H. Ali—University of Delaware, USA and University of Queensland, Australia
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Bharath Gopalaswamy—Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, USA
David Leary—The University of New South Wales, Australia
Jose Puppim de Oliveira—United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Yokohama, Japan
The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
Edited by Anna Grichting and Michele Zebich-Knos
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Names: Grichting, Anna, editor. | Zebich-Knos, Michele, editor.
Title: The social ecology of border landscapes/edited by Anna Grichting and Michele Zebich-Knos.
Description: London; New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2017. | Series: Anthem series on international environmental policy and agreements | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017005635 | ISBN 9781783086696 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Social ecology—Case studies. | Borderlands—Social aspects—Case studies. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. | ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
Classification: LCC HM861.S626 2017 | DDC 304.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017005635

ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-669-6 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1-78308-669-6 (Hbk)

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface List of Contributors Introduction Social Ecologies and Borderlands Anna Grichting
Part I. Frames: Mapping Social Ecologies in Border Territories Chapter One On the Agency of Borderlands Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Chapter Two Social Ecology and Transboundary Conservation: (Re)connecting Nature and People in Borderlands Kevan Zunckel Chapter Three Social Ecologies and Structural Violence: Boundary-Making as Nature-Making in a Gated Globe Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper Part II. Bridges: Resilience, Restoration and Reclamation Chapter Four Borders as Zones of Experiential Learning: The Case of the Balkans Peace Park Project Todd Walters and Saleem H. Ali Chapter Five Social Ecologies in Borderlands: Crane Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Agriculture Project in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Hall Healy, George Archibald and Arthur H. Westing Chapter Six Socio-ecological Transformations in Riparian Zones: The Production of Spaces of Exclusion and the Uneven Development of Resilience in the Sonoran Borderlands Lily A. House-Peters Chapter Seven From No-Man’s Land to Every-Man’s Land: Socio-ecological Approaches to Reclaiming Shared Spaces in Border Landscapes, with Examples from Germany and Cyprus Anna Grichting
Part III. Corridors: Catalysts and Collaboration in Confined Spaces Chapter Eight Ensuring Hope in Militarized Landscapes: The Case of Lebanon Rabih Shibli Chapter Nine Domesticating and Enlarging One’s Territory: Day-to-Day Politics in a Confined Space—The Shu’fat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem Sylvaine Bulle Chapter Ten Urban Alternatives and Collaborative Economics in Belfast’s Contested Space Brendan Murtagh
Part IV. Portals: Dialogue, Exception and Reterritorialization Chapter Eleven Australia Day: A Social Ecology Dialogue across Aboriginal and White Cultures Carol Birrell and Stuart B. Hill Chapter Twelve Re-legislating the Soil: Enclosures and Exception at the Amazon Frontiers Paulo Tavares Chapter Thirteen Mediterranean Edges: Reterritorializing Natural and Social Ecologies Verena Andermatt Conley Conclusion Making Sense of Social Ecology, Borders and the Environment Michele Zebich-Knos
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
2.1 The global distribution of transboundary protected areas (TBPAs)
2.2 An illustration of the evolving paradigms within the conservation fraternity over the past 50 years
2.3 The relationship between ecosystem goods and services emanating from healthy, functioning ecosystems and human well-being
4.1 Thethi National Park, Albania
4.2 Lake Plav, Montenegro
5.1 Crane Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Agriculture Project Area—Anbyon, DPRK
5.2 Photo of Red-crowned and White-naped Cranes in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone
6.1 Map of the binational San Pedro River watershed
6.2 Map depicting ejido property boundaries and private property boundaries in the Mexican portion
6.3 Groundwater concessions for the Mexican San Pedro
6.4 Privatization and sale of riparian land and water rights to Minera María
7.1 Structural representation of topology of the Rhizome
7.2 The Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum
7.3 Cyprus GreenLineScapes Laboratory
7.4 The Home for Cooperation in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia
7.5 (a) Flatro Bastion in Nicosia and (b) Flatro Bastion in Nicosia on Google Earth
7.6 From military buffer to laboratory of ecological planning and human reconciliation
8.1 Schematic drawing of the cover page of students’ workbook, representing the theme of remodeling harshscapes
8.2 Convoy of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrolling in southern Lebanon
8.3 An example of vacant structures funded by the Lebanese government to develop areas under Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon
8.4 Terraced hilly terrain showing shrubs, olive trees and the tobacco plantation in Marwaheen village
8.5 AUB students working hand in hand with local farmers in the rehabilitation of Marwaheen pond
8.6 A “greenhouse” atop a corrugated metal roof improvised to secure natural lighting and ventilation necessary for plants’ growth
8.7 High walls, barbed wires, metal fences and plastic sheets create a physical and visual buffer for the Women’s Vocational Training Center (WVTC)
8.8 Three-dimensional model of the Urban Agriculture Center
9.1 Israeli security wall surrounding Shu’fat camp
9.2 Garden inside the camp, opposite the settlement of Pisgat Zeev
9.3 Extension and improvements in the camp
10.1 Religious distribution and neighborhoods within Belfast
12.1 The great enclosure: Lines of the state of emergency enforced over the Peruvian Amazon in 2009
12.2 Life-zoning cartography: Mapa Ecológico del Peru 12.3 and 12.4 Life-zoning diagram. Leslie R. Holdridge’s ecology of Peru’s territory 12.5 and 12.6 Land taxonomy. (a) Cover from Mapa Ecológico del Peru showing Leslie Holdridge’s diagram (1995) and (b) extracts from the descriptive guide accompanying the life-zoning map of Peru
12.7 Resource terrain. Excerpt from the guide to the Mapa Ecológico del Peru 12.8 and 12.9 Ecology coded by law. Map of Peru’s land-use potential
12.10, 12.11, 12.12 Political-legal enclosures
13.1 Imposing the space of the colonizer
13.2 Reappropriating the colonized space
C.1 Esperanza Base, Argentina’s research station on the Antarctic Peninsula
Tables
2.1 A record of data reflecting the extent and growth of transboundary conservation efforts across the globe
2.2 The recommended stages and steps necessary to take a TBC initiative from concept to implementation
5.1 Anbyon, DPRK experimental plots: Crop yields from organic versus chemical fertilizers
5.2 Anbyon, DPRK experimental plots: Actual 2011 yields from organic versus chemical fertilizers
10.1 Residential segregation and mixing in Northern Ireland, 2001–11
10.2 Interface structures in Belfast
10.3 SRRP performance indicators
Preface
The idea for this book came out of the 2011 Conference on Environmental Diplomacy and Security in International Relations organized by the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Secu