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Reshaping Environments: Agriculture and Water Interactions and the Creation of Vulnerability
Author(s) -
Marsden T K
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1997.00321.x
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , agriculture , abandonment (legal) , natural resource economics , business , resource (disambiguation) , production (economics) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , environmental change , environmental science , geography , ecology , economics , climate change , political science , computer network , computer security , computer science , law , macroeconomics , archaeology , biology
With reference to empirical evidence from the Caribbean and Brazil, the paper assesses how environmental vulnerability is being created through different types of agricultural intensification and abandonment. Critical to understanding this reshaping of environments is the social management of agriculture and water. The results suggest the need for new models of agro‐water relations which incorporate internal and external market influences on food production and resource management. External demands for the quality of food products, over and above the environmental or labour conditions in which they are produced, tend to devalue environments and exacerbate vulnerability. These processes lead to new patterns of environmental uneven development whereby regions rapidly intensify or deintensify their agricultures and their use and availability of water.