Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Ester Boserup's Intellectual Heritage -- Chapter 1 Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Agricultural Change -- 1.3 Women in Development -- 1.4 Appreciating an Innovative Scholar -- References -- Chapter 2"Finding Out Is My Life": Conversationswith Ester Boserup in the 1990s -- 2.1 Conversations -- 2.2 An Analytical Framework for Development Theory -- 2.3 Selected Applications -- 2.4 Boserup in Self-Perception -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Boserup's Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Boserup's Main Theoretical Propositions, and her Efforts at an Empirical Proof -- 3.3 Understanding Qualitative Change: Sociometabolic Regimes -- 3.3.1 The Green Revolution -- 3.4 Examples of Later Research Findings that Could Have Been Anticipated from Boserup's Theory -- 3.4.1 Example 1: On the Non-Linearity Between Population and Land Requirement -- 3.4.2 Example 2: Generalizing the Thesis of Non-Linearity to Other Resources -- 3.4.3 Example 3: On the Role of Development and Population Density in Driving Resource Use -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture -- Chapter 4 The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change---a Case from the South West Pacific -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Our Theoretical and Conceptual Lenses -- 4.2.1 Agricultural Intensification and Innovation -- 4.2.2 A Diagrammatic Heuristic -- 4.3 Land Use and Population Change on Bellona -- 4.3.1 Changing Population Pressure -- 4.3.2 Land Use Dynamics -- 4.3.3 Land use change seen through a theoretical lens -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 5 Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Boserup's Notion of Land-Use Intensification -- 5.3 Measuring Land-Use Intensity -- 5.3.1 The Technical Efficiency Approach -- 5.3.2 The -Factor -- 5.3.3 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production -- 5.3.4 Global Patterns of Land-Use Intensity Derived Using the Three Approaches -- 5.4 Comparison of the Three Approaches -- 5.4.1 Conceptual Differences -- 5.4.2 Spatial Patterns of Land-Use Intensity -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models -- 6.1 Transitions to Agriculture -- 6.2 Models of Population, Production, and Innovation -- 6.3 A Combined Model and ``Real'' World Application -- 6.4 Innovation in Transitions to Agriculture -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Appendix: The Reduced GLUES Model -- References -- Chapter 7 Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750--2000) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Case Study in the Mountains of Southern Spain -- 7.3 From a Pastoral System to a Specialisation in Olive Production -- 7.3.1 Agrarian Change in Preindustrial Agriculture -- 7.3.2 Specialisation in Olive Growing and the Major Transformation of the twentieth Century -- 7.4 The Impacts of Agrarian Change: The Problems of Soil Erosion and Soil Fertility -- 7.4.1 Managing Land Fertility -- 7.4.2 Soil Erosion in Olive Orchards: A Long-Term Perspective -- 7.5 Conclusion: A Sociometabolic Approach to Agrarian Intensification and Soil Degradation -- References -- Chapter 8 Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Theoretical Assumptions, Concepts and Methods -- 8.2.1 Returning to Boserup and Introducing Sociometabolic Concepts.

8.2.2 Human Time as a Biophysical Resource -- 8.2.2.1 Labour Time Studies Revisited -- 8.3 Description of the Cases -- 8.3.1 Introducing Trinket, Campo Bello, Sabawas, and Nalang -- 8.3.2 Methods of Data Collection on Time Use -- 8.4 Findings -- 8.4.1 Land and Labour Productivity -- 8.4.2 Overall Labour Time Investment in the Different Communities -- 8.4.2.1 Gender Differences in Labour Time -- 8.4.2.2 The Contribution of Children to Labour Time -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Population and Gender -- Chapter 9 Following Boserup's Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women's Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces -- 9.1 Introduction: Reconceptualisations -- 9.2 Following Ester Boserup's Traces -- 9.3 Processes of Gendered Structuration and Informalisation -- 9.4 Gendered Embeddedness of the Economy -- 9.5 Food and Social Security, Natural Resource Entitlements -- 9.6 Producing Knowledge and Negotiating Development in Translocal Gendered Spaces -- 9.7 Conclusion: From Women's Roles to Engendering Development -- References -- Chapter 10 Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas -- 10.1 Contrasting Case Studies -- 10.2 Uttarakhand---Dominated by Female Farming Systems -- 10.3 Low CSR---Bin Block, Pithoragarh Tehsil -- 10.4 High CSR---Mori Block, Puraula Tehsil -- 10.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 Revisiting Boserup's Hypotheses in the Context of Africa -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Status of African Women from the Pre-Colonial Era to the Post-Colonial Era -- 11.3 The Role of African Women in Food Production and Agriculture -- 11.4 Women's Lack of Control over the Means of Production -- 11.5 Are Human Development, Economic Growth, and the Status of Females Interrelated?.

11.6 Fertility Transition in Africa -- 11.7 Conclusions: The Relevance of Boserup's Theories in Twenty-first Century Africa -- References -- Chapter 12 An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup's Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Boserup on Agricultural Intensification -- 12.3 Background on Large-Scale Land Deals -- 12.4 Large-Scale Land Deals as a Contemporary Example of Agricultural Intensification -- 12.5 Boserup, Gender and the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate -- 12.6 Integrating Gender into the Large-Scale Land Deal Debate -- 12.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13 Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Labour Migration, Gender, and Productive Assets: A Review of the Literature -- 13.3 Methods -- 13.4 Husbands' Migration and Wives' Land Assets -- 13.5 Daughters' Migration and Daughters' Land and Cattle Assets -- 13.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria -- 14.1 Why Link to Boserup's Approach? -- 14.2 The ``GenderGAP'' Project---An Austrian Case Study -- 14.3 Sustainability Research, Gender Issues and Quality of Life -- 14.3.1 The Sustainability Triangle -- 14.3.2 Time-Use Approach as a Means for Analysing Changes in Gender Relations -- 14.3.3 Quality of Life: Time Use as a Bridging Concept Between Sustainability and Social Issues -- 14.4 Agent-Based, Participatory Modelling and Scenario Results -- 14.4.1 Agent-Based Model of Two Villages -- 14.4.2 Participatory Modelling -- 14.4.3 Building Scenarios and Model Results -- 14.5 Sustainable Agriculture in Austria in Light of Ester Boserup -- References.

Chapter 15 A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development -- 15.1 Making Women Visible -- 15.2 The International Recognition of Women and Gender in Development -- 15.3 Rural Gender and Women's Studies -- 15.4 Criticism of Boserup and Her Terminology -- 15.5 Gender Order Rather than Women's Role -- 15.6 What is ``Natural'' About Nature? -- 15.7 A Human Ecological Approach to Boserup -- 15.7.1 Duncan's Ecological Complex -- 15.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 16 Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume -- 16.1 In What Ways Did Ester Boserup's Work Influencethe Research Agenda of the Contributors to this Volume? -- 16.1.1 Population Growth Leading into a Malthusian Trap or to Productive Innovations? -- 16.1.2 Land Use Intensification and its Drivers -- 16.1.3 Labour Time and Labour Productivity -- 16.1.4 Genderizing Development -- 16.2 In What Respects Does the Research Presented in this Volume Transgress, or Even Contradict, Boserup's Work? -- References -- ERRATUM "Finding Out Is My Life": Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s -- ERRATUM Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability -- Bibliography.

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