Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability

<p>PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage</p><p>1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability</p><p>2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s</p><p>3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition</p><p>PART II  Land Use, Technology and Agriculture</p><p>4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific</p><p>5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity</p><p>6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models</p><p>7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus:  Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) </p><p>8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development</p><p>PART III: Population and Gender</p><p>9. Following Boserup’s Traces:  From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces</p><p>10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas</p><p>11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa</p><p>12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development</p><p>13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico:  Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters</p><p>14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria</p><p>15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development</p>16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume