Essays about: "Metabolic rift"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words Metabolic rift.

1. 6. The Political Ecology of Pee and Poo

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Edel Bergitte Lowzow; [2017]
   Keywords : Metabolic rift; peak phosphorus; human excreta; sustainable sanitation; critical discourse analysis; Norway; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how the metabolic rift and peak phosphorus are represented in Norwegian media and policy documents. The investigation is done with the use of critical discourse analysis. The material investigated consists of 28 texts from Norwegian newspapers and two documents from the Norwegian Environment Agency. READ MORE

3. 7. Farmers' practices and the metabolic rift: An analysis of the interconnections between coffee production and climate change adaptation in the Nicaraguan mountain region

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Ernesto Lazo Lopez; [2016]
   Keywords : Coffee production; Climate change adaptation; Nicaragua; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Climate smart territories are proposed as the solution to the perceived problems of poverty, food insecurity, gender equality, degradation of eco-systems, and climate change vulnerability, in the mountain region in Nicaragua. By educating farmers and rural families the practices that lead to these problems can be changed. READ MORE

4. 8. Unpacking Lunch: Political Ecology & The Meat Industrial Complex

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Jenica Frique; Jenica Frisque; [2010]
   Keywords : political ecology; neoliberalism; development; factory farming; meat-industrial complex; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper highlights, theoretically and empirically, how development and underdevelopment are closely linked by looking at the global food system, with a special emphasis on the meat-industrial complex. Conceptually, this thesis mobilizes Foster’s theory of metabolic rift, O’Connor’s theory of the second contradiction of capitalism, and Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession” to account for the socio-ecological contradictions of the meat-industrial complex. READ MORE

5. 9. The impact of agroforestry and other landuses on soil functional capacity

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Lena Adolfsson; [2008]
   Keywords : agroforestry; soil functional capacity; Biolog Ecoplate; substrate utilisation potential; soil microorganism; functional biodiversity; soil bacteria;

   Abstract : Deforestation, agricultural cultivation and overuse of land resources can lead to decreasing functional capacity of soil microorganisms, e.g. decreasing decomposition and mineralisation capacity and rate. READ MORE