Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability: Orientations for Contemporary Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability....Pages 3-11
“Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s....Pages 13-22
Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions....Pages 23-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change—a Case from the South West Pacific....Pages 45-60
Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity....Pages 61-86
Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models....Pages 87-97
Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750–2000)....Pages 99-116
Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development....Pages 117-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces....Pages 141-157
Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas....Pages 159-173
Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa....Pages 175-187
An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development....Pages 189-202
Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters....Pages 203-219
Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria....Pages 221-238
A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development....Pages 239-257
Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume....Pages 259-265
ERRATUM....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 267-267