Publisher's Synopsis
Examining issues such as land use, landscape and development, this book provides an overview of the environmental issues of marginalization. The theoretical perspectives are well illustrated by practical, empirical examples from marginal areas of South and South-East Asia, South America, West and East Europe and North Africa. - - The contributors provide a heterogeneity of views on the environmental aspects and impacts of economic globalization on marginalized areas, and in doing so, enlarge the scope of the concept of 'environment'. As well as examining the physical features of marginalized regions and assessing how their limitations can be overcome through new political situations, the book also includes chapters which look at 'environment' in social and economic terms. -
