Essays about: "malthusian discourse"

Found 2 essays containing the words malthusian discourse.

1. 1. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Filippa Giertta; [2016]
   Keywords : firewood; deforestation; climate change; carbon forestry; CDM; Kachung;

   Abstract : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. READ MORE

3. 2. Between Continuity and Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development’s Program of Action

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Khelia Mbisamakoro; [2014]
   Keywords : discourse; population control; malthusian discourse; family planning; CDA; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narratives about coercive population control policies and programs abound. Questionable practices such as the wide sterilization campaigns as took place in India during its state of emergency period in the 1970s or the use of contraceptives in the developing world already banned from Western markets contributed in casting a shadow over the population control movement for years. READ MORE