2 Towards a Landscape Political Ecology
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Creighton Connolly
Abstract
This chapter will explicate the landscape political ecology framework, as well as the attendant methodological approach developed alongside it. It is broken into six main sections. The first three provide the conceptual background underpinning the LPE framework developed in this book. The first of these discusses the conceptualization of landscape from a political ecology framework, before reviewing relevant literature on urban political ecology and how it allows us to understand contemporary processes of urbanization. The third section identifies the commonalities between these approaches that make create productive synergies when combined into an LPE framework. The subsequent three sections discuss how this approach is useful for understanding extended forms of urbanization, heritage and infrastructure, respectively, which are the primary themes running throughout the controversies being analysed in Penang.
Abstract
This chapter will explicate the landscape political ecology framework, as well as the attendant methodological approach developed alongside it. It is broken into six main sections. The first three provide the conceptual background underpinning the LPE framework developed in this book. The first of these discusses the conceptualization of landscape from a political ecology framework, before reviewing relevant literature on urban political ecology and how it allows us to understand contemporary processes of urbanization. The third section identifies the commonalities between these approaches that make create productive synergies when combined into an LPE framework. The subsequent three sections discuss how this approach is useful for understanding extended forms of urbanization, heritage and infrastructure, respectively, which are the primary themes running throughout the controversies being analysed in Penang.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vi
- List of Abbreviations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 1
- Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 20
- Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 38
- Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a Worlding City 57
- The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 77
- Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 96
- Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 114
- Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanizing Frontier 135
- Notes 145
- References 148
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vi
- List of Abbreviations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 1
- Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 20
- Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 38
- Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a Worlding City 57
- The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 77
- Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 96
- Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 114
- Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanizing Frontier 135
- Notes 145
- References 148
- Index 185
