Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability (eBook)

PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime TransitionPART II  Land Use, Technology and Agriculture4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus:  Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural DevelopmentPART III: Population and Gender9. Following Boserup’s Traces:  From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico:  Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume