TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheppard,Eric S.
TI  - A world of difference : : encountering and contesting development
SN  - 9781606232620 (pbk.)
U1  - 910 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York , ; London
PB  - : Guilford Press
KW  - Desarrollo sostenible
KW  - Historia
KW  - Geografía
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 609-642) e índice; Measuring, describing, and mapping difference and development -- Knowing the third world: colonial encounters -- Knowing the third world: the development decades -- The third world and neoliberal globalization -- Geographies of population: discourse and politics -- Contested environments: the entanglements of environment, development, and globalization -- Disease and health -- Uncertain rains: the atmospheric energy cycle and the hydrologic cycle -- Other challenges to rural livelihood: soils, vegetation, and pests -- Nature as latitudinal trickster: the carbon cycle and plant growth -- The management of tropical and subtropical ecosystems: the Pokot of West Central Kenya-an indigenous knowledge system -- The historical geography of colonialism and the slave trade -- Colonialism as spatial and labor control system -- The end of colonialism and the promise of free trade -- Trading primary commodities -- Peripheral industrialization: paths and strategies -- The earth's crust as resource -- Urbanization, migration, and spatial polarization -- Transnational production -- Foreign branch plants and economic growth -- Money and global finance markets / with Bongman Seo -- Borrowing money: aid, debt, and dependence / with Bongman Seo -- Toward different worlds
ER  -