"This clear and outstanding assessment of ecological approaches to agro-social practices will be welcomed by many people. It offers original data on Honduras. Few people can grasp the different theoretical perspectives in this transdisciplinary field so well as Jansen does in this book. He shows great skill in the interweaving of arguments and the mustering of evidence to test different points of view." -Norman Long, Professor of Sociology of Rural Development
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'A fine critique of the easy sentimentality of indigenous knowledge studies.' Paul Richards -- Professor of Technology and Agrarian Development
'This clear and outstanding assessment of ecological approaches to agro-social practices will be welcomed by many people. It offers original data on Honduras. Few people can grasp the different theoretical perspectives in this transdisciplinary field so well as Jansen does in this book. He shows great skill in the interweaving of arguments and the mustering of evidence to test different points of view.'
'This clear and outstanding assessment of ecological approaches to agro-social practices will be welcomed by many people. It offers original data on Honduras. Few people can grasp the different theoretical perspectives in this transdisciplinary field so well as Jansen does in this book. He shows great skill in the interweaving of arguments and the mustering of evidence to test different points of view.'
Norman Long -- Professor of Sociology of Rural Development
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The social and biophysical processes entailed in environmental deterioration are the subject of intense debate in Honduras, one of the poorest countries of Latin America. This book analyses the political ecology of precarious farming in mountainous areas. The author evaluates a rich array of social and agronomic data in order to assess existing theories that purport to explain environmental deterioration and agrarian change in Honduras. It explores the relationships between land tenure patterns, shifting agricultural practices, changing social relations of production, and producers' knowledge. Special attention is given to differential perceptions and responses of producers to environmental deterioration, and to the broader knowledge struggles of different actors about issues such as burning, the fallow crisis, biocide use, and deforestation. This detailed case study draws on political economy, human ecology, critical realism, and social constructionism and constitutes an original contribution to current debates on political ecology.
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