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Environmental Microsegregation: Urban Renewal and the Political Ecology of Health

Urban Planning, 2023
In recent years, multiple-burden maps were developed as a tool for assessing environmental health inequities in cities. Maps of this kind are particularly useful in identifying disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Klaus Geiselhart, David Spenger
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Towards a Foucauldian Urban Political Ecology of water: Rethinking the hydro-social cy-cle and scholars’ critical engagement

Foucault Studies, 2016
Thirty years after the death of Michel Foucault, notwithstanding the fact that his thought has profoundly shaped the contemporary reflection and contributed to move beyond structuralism, the Urban Political Ecology in general and the Urban Political ...
Paola Rattu, René Véron
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How to govern the urban hydrosocial cycle: archaeo-genealogy of hydromentalities in the Swiss urban water sector between 1850 and 1950 [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica, 2015
Switzerland appears to be a privileged place to investigate the urban political ecology of tap water because of the specificities of its political culture and organization and the relative abundance of drinking water in the country.
P. Rattu, R. Véron
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"Chicken wars", water fights, and other contested ecologies along the rural-urban interface in California's Sierra Nevada foothills

Journal of Political Ecology, 2016
The regional political ecology approach entails attention to chains of explanation both up and down scale while acknowledging both the similarities and distinctiveness between and among local level patterns and processes.
Colleen C. Hiner
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Centering the Korle Lagoon: exploring blue political ecologies of E-Waste in Ghana

Journal of Political Ecology, 2019
Among emerging studies of the global political economy and ecology of electronic waste (or e-waste), few directly explore the already complex waste trades and materialities in relation to the general political ecology of water, flood control, dredging ...
Peter C Little, Grace Abena Akese
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Gender and the Urban Commons in India: An Overview of Scientific Literature and the Relevance of a Feminist Political Ecology Perspective

International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2020
Traditionally, the concept of the commons implied a rural commons, an area of common usage for agricultural or pastoral purposes. As increasing numbers of people migrate to cities, however, sociological studies have focused on urban issues, of which the
Manisha Rao
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Political Ecology, Island Tourism Planning, and Climate Change Adaptation on Boracay, Philippines

Island Studies Journal, 2015
This research paper presents a case study of the island of Boracay, Philippines, utilising a political ecology approach to climate change adaptation. The research finds that the island’s political ecology, especially the relationships among stakeholders,
Virgilio Maguigad, David King, Alison Cottrell   +2 more
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Weedy activism: women, plants, and the genetic pollution of urban Japan

Journal of Political Ecology, 2021
Along the ports of Japan, civilians have made a peculiar discovery: in a country where genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation is prohibited, wild canola weeds flourishing in the cracks of sidewalks are exhibiting the GM trait of herbicide resistance ...
Alyssa D Paredes
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Reseña de A city on a lake, urban political ecology and growth of Mexico City

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019
'A city on a lake, urban political ecology and growth of Mexico City', by Matthew Vitz, Duke University Press ...
Ojilve Ramón Medrano Pérez
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Politische Ökologie des Postsozialismus [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica, 2016
The consequences and effects of the socialist experiment are still felt today, a quarter century after the system change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
M. Schmidt
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