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- catalog abstract ""Changing Places chronicles contemporary social and ecological changes occurring in rural Honduras as the result of the twin effects of development projects and globalization. The study area has been subject to dramatic forces of change through the construction of the El Cajon hydroelectric dam, which flooded extensive areas of agricultural land, as well as the less dramatic but equally important changes associated with globalization. The book examines the environmental consequences of the dam, the response of local people to dam-induced changes, the ecological effects of changing land use patterns and the challenges to local livelihoods posed by globalization. Local responses to these changes include agricultural intensification, increased rates of migration for employment in maquiladora plants and to the U.S. The work combines a variety of methodologies including remote sensing and GIS, along with extended participant observation and other anthropological methods. Geographic and ethnographic sources are integrated using an actor-centered political and historical ecology framework, with explicit consideration of how cultural power and social capital shaped the course of local change."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13155307.
- catalog coverage "Honduras Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Changing Places chronicles contemporary social and ecological changes occurring in rural Honduras as the result of the twin effects of development projects and globalization. The study area has been subject to dramatic forces of change through the construction of the El Cajon hydroelectric dam, which flooded extensive areas of agricultural land, as well as the less dramatic but equally important changes associated with globalization. The book examines the environmental consequences of the dam, the response of local people to dam-induced changes, the ecological effects of changing land use patterns and the challenges to local livelihoods posed by globalization.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The social landscape -- Before the flood -- In the wake of the flood -- Projects, power and social capital -- Conclusions.".
- catalog description "Local responses to these changes include agricultural intensification, increased rates of migration for employment in maquiladora plants and to the U.S. The work combines a variety of methodologies including remote sensing and GIS, along with extended participant observation and other anthropological methods. Geographic and ethnographic sources are integrated using an actor-centered political and historical ecology framework, with explicit consideration of how cultural power and social capital shaped the course of local change."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 227 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0890895163".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press,".
- catalog spatial "Honduras Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Honduras.".
- catalog subject "307.72/097283 22".
- catalog subject "Economic development Environmental aspects Honduras.".
- catalog subject "HN153.5 .L65 2004".
- catalog subject "Hydroelectric power plants Environmental aspects Honduras.".
- catalog subject "Social change Honduras.".
- catalog subject "Sustainable development Honduras.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The social landscape -- Before the flood -- In the wake of the flood -- Projects, power and social capital -- Conclusions.".
- catalog title "Changing places : environment, development and social change in rural Honduras / William M. Loker.".
- catalog type "text".