There and back again: Epiphany, disillusionment, and rediscovery in political ecology

Robbins, Paul; Bishop, Kristina Monroe

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.12.013

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“…Blaikie's framework has proven difficult to apply empirically (Batterbury and Bebbington 1999) and he has since acknowledged that his approach provides little guidance for establishing actual causal connections between social and environmental phenomena, especially where such interactions are occurring over historical time and widely separated points in space (Blaikie 1999, 140). By contrast, event ecology directly addresses these central analytical challenges and, as such, perhaps offers a solution to the dilemma facing Blaikie and other political ecologists who have aspired (but also struggled) to follow in his footsteps (e.g., see Robbins and Bishop 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research

Walters

Vayda

2009

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research

Walters

Vayda

2009

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…In some ways, the contributions to this special section reflect an acknowledgement of the value and applicability of classic approaches in political ecology (Robbins and Bishop 2008). At the same time, these contributions reveal complex and nuanced approaches to scalar interactions that move beyond nested scale models and the dichotomy of top-down versus bottom-up approaches to human-environment interactions.…”

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Does the region still have relevance? (Re)considering "regional" political ecology

Hiner¹

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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Although the field of political ecology began as fundamentally regional, a clear, coherent regional political ecology approach has failed to emerge. This introductory essay frames a collection of articles compiled to take up the idea of pursuing a specifically regional political ecology, discussing both the problematic and the beneficial aspects of regions and regional approaches. In this introduction, we discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of using the region as a heuristic within the field. Our focus, and that of the articles introduced, is to consider what analytical work this concept can do, addressing the question: how and why how are regions useful within political ecology? Our intention is not to provide a guide to using the concept in political ecology but rather to highlight how regions are currently being used, and to reopen discussions of the utility of the concept for scholars explicitly working towards justice and sustainability in a variety of contexts. After describing the value of a using regional political ecology approach, we emphasize the work still yet to be done, prompting other scholars to consider regional political ecology approaches as they do the work that they do.

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“…Proximate drivers operate locally, but are also influenced by political economic constraints imposed at varying spatial and temporal scales As such, broad networks of political, economic, and social relations are implicated in local environmental dynamics (e.g. Robbins, 2012;Robbins and Monroe Bishop, 2008). Admittedly, the original CoE framework is not perfectly congruent with present-day STMs.…”

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Boxing daze – using state-and-transition models to explore the evolution of socio-biophysical landscapes

Dyke

2015

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Critical physical geography (CPG) proposes to bridge the lingering gap between human and physical geographers. To rejuvenate conversations among different corners of the discipline about the possibility of transdisciplinary collaboration, CPG must provide unique epistemological, methodological, and conceptual frameworks that human and physical geographers alike will find appealing, relevant, and timely. These should help them perceptively characterize, narrate, and anticipate changes in socio-biophysical landscapes. This paper outlines a conceptual framework that can be harnessed in future CPG studies and reflects on what it means to be a critical geographer. To solve the epistemological dilemmas confronting CPG, this paper demonstrates that state-and-transition models (STMs) can provide a unifying framework to address questions about socio-biophysical landscape evolution. Originally developed to account for nonlinear dynamics in rangeland ecosystems, STMs have been used to analyze a variety of ecological, geomorphic, and hydrological transitions in complex biophysical landscapes. STMs have epistemological commonalities with explanatory frameworks pioneered by political ecologists, and while thus far they have been used to account for complex biophysical dynamics, they can be expanded to accommodate critical investigations of the social dynamics underpinning landscape change. By foregrounding the transitional dynamics of socio-biophysical landscape -a theme that has interested physical and critical human geographers -STMs establish a conceptual space in which to holistically interpret the interacting drivers that underwrite socio-biophysical landscape change.

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There and back again: Epiphany, disillusionment, and rediscovery in political ecology

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research

Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research

Does the region still have relevance? (Re)considering "regional" political ecology

Boxing daze – using state-and-transition models to explore the evolution of socio-biophysical landscapes

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