Download or read book Political Economies of Landscape Change written by James L. Jr Wescoat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hugely important and timely work asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. It explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broad readership of landscape architects, geographers, and related fields of social and environmental research.