Abandoning fossil fuels and increasingly relying on low-density, land-intensive renewable energy will increase demand for land, affecting current global and regional rural–urban relationships. Over the past two decades, rural–urban relationships all over the world have witnessed...

Rural change in Cambodia manifests itself in rapidly declining land availability for the smallholder sector, posing the question of how farmers may be able to deal with limited access to land. In this paper, we discuss with a case study village and household livelihood strategies of smallholders...

This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary...

pt. 1. The idea of 'ecological economics' : interdisciplinarity in theory, method and practice -- pt. 2. Life after reductionism : exemplary ecological economics beyond reductionism, in practice -- pt. 3. Into the woods : mapping the challenges and the possibilities for continuing the...

While the interests of the planet's ecosystems are clearly important for environmental politics, it is not clear on what basis they can be meaningfully represented in democratic politics. At present, these interests are represented by activists and scientists on an ad-hoc basis. While this may...