TY - BOOK ID - 101914917 TI - Drylands facing change : interventions, investments and identities PY - 2023 SN - 1000802531 1003174485 1032005084 PB - New York : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), DB - UniCat KW - Arid regions. KW - Arid lands KW - Arid zones KW - Dry lands KW - Dryland regions KW - Drylands KW - Lands, Arid KW - Regions, Arid KW - Regions, Semiarid KW - Semi-arid regions KW - Semi-arid zones KW - Semiarid regions KW - Sub-humid lands KW - Zones, Arid KW - Extreme environments UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101914917 AB - "This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia. Changes is drylands is happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as 'wastelands' and their 'backward' inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security and conservation informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland's point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development and drylands in general"-- Provided by publisher. ER -