Manifeste pour une géographie environnementale

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Publication Date

23 March 2009

ISBN-13

978-2-7246-1110-6

Code

9782724611106

Weight

740 grams

List Price

15.00 €

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

• Hunger for land and thirst for water: farming systems under pressure
• Agricultural and rural development: a political priority
• For sustainable development of farming systems and rural worlds
• A report constructed collectively

> CHAPTER 1 Preserving natural resources
• Mediterranean know-how– the fruit of thousands of years
• Water resources: a rapidly changing balance
• Slow and progressive desertification
• Polluted environments, degraded life
• Managing wooded areas
• Haro for bio!
• Development models need adapting

> CHAPTER 2 Revising water strategies
• Trend in agricultural water demand incompatible with the trend in available resources
• Better management of agricultural water demand
• Virtual water: a concept for guiding agricultural policies?
• For a comprehensive global vision of water

> CHAPTER 3 Adapting agricultural systems to climate change
• Panorama of the agricultural sector and water resources
• Recent climate trends and future projections
• The many different impacts of climate change
• Strategies for adapting to climate change
• Measures for adapting to climate change
• Recommendations for agriculture faced with climate change
• Regional cooperation: an imperative

> CHAPTER 4 Fighting desertification
• Definition and physical processes of desertification
• Monitoring desertification and the environment
• Techniques for fighting desertification
• Institutional response: monitoring and evaluating UNCCD implementation
• Public strategies and measures taken since the 1970s
• Social solutions
• New strategy frameworks for fighting desertification

> CHAPTER 5 Developing local areas and their people
• The status quo: rural development policies and local approaches in the Mediterranean countries
• Local policies and approaches: an overview
• Some reflections on common problems
• The concept of local development
• Rural and regional development

> CHAPTER 6 Rural life
• The rural world: plural realities
• Insufficient geographical rebalancing
• Where does agriculture fit into the rural environment?
• No end to poverty
• Predominance of small farms and family work
• Progress in services, but shadow zones persist
• Stimulating development in the hinterland and opening up the landlocked areas of the North
• The new challenges for rural areas

> CHAPTER 7 Managing collective land and rangelands
• Collective rangelands in agrarian history
• The historical heritage
• Pastoral management in the dock
• Major changes in production systems
• Pastoral policies
• What is to become of collective lands?

> CHAPTER 8 Improving rural governance
• A flurry of reforms faced with the challenges of globalisation
• The emergence of new forms of rurality in the North of the Mediterranean
• Agriculture, smallholdings and the importance of the rural population in the South and East
• European policies tested by rural realities
• Rural development strategies in the countries of the South: the central place of agriculture and poverty reduction
• From "constructed" areas in the North to "lived areas" in the South
• The future of Mediterranean rurality

> CHAPTER 9 Diversifying rural activity
• Rural areas in the Northern Mediterranean: multifunctionality and diversification
• Rural areas in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean: boom and new adaptations
• Agriculture first and foremost

> CHAPTER 10 Measuring agricultural and rural development
• Definitions
• Some results
• Reservations regarding calculation and interpretation

> CHAPTER 11 Evaluating the effect of the MSSD
• Reminder of the MSSD
• Preliminary feedback of experience in agriculture and rural development
• The way to convergent development policies

CONCLUSION
• Natural resources and endogenous knowledge
• Rural activities and societies
• Regions, policies and governance