1. Island historical-political ecologies: ecologically unequal exchange, landesque capital and environmental/social justice on Taiwan’s small islands Eric Clark Lund University Department of Human Geography and Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID) International Conference on Environmental Conflicts and Justice, organized by ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2-3 July 2010
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7. Critical question There is an assumption that landesque capital is consistent with sustainability and the opposite of degradation. ”Enduring beneficial change” creeps into the very definition of landesque capital. What about “ investments in land with an anticipated life well beyond that of the present crop” which result in stripping and gullying soils, and exploitative investments in land characterized more by extract-and-move-on than by soil husbandry or sustainable niche construction?
8. Improvement is the Juggernaut of capitalist expansion. Karl Polanyi (1944 [2001]) The great transformation
10. Tao = Pongso no Tao Spanish = Botel Tobago Japanese = Koto-sho shima Han Chinese = Lanyu Hong-tou yu (Redhead Island) English = Orchid Island Tao = Pongso no Tao Spanish = Botel Tobago Japanese = Koto-sho shima Han Chinese = Lanyu Hong-tou yu (Redhead Island) English = Orchid Island Indigenous backyard
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