Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld Bielefeld University Press 2024
• Series: The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America
• Subjects: Agriculture; Anthropocene; Bielefeld University Press; Cultural Geography; Cultural History; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Environment; Environmental History; Environmental Sociology; Geography; History; History and Archaeology; History: specific events and topics; Human; Human geography; Land Use; Latin America; Nature; Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography; Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues; Social impact of environmental issues; The environment; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences; Urbanization
• ISBN: 9783837670110; 3837670112; 9783839470114; 3839470110
• DOI: 10.14361/9783839470114

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions touch upon numerous aspects, from the transformations of material to the social practices, their political and legal regulations as well as the imaginaries of virgin territories. Consequently, far from limiting themselves to a static cartography of land use, the contributors investigate the appropriations of borders and historic transformations in land use.