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Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the
political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider
examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural
sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be
summarized as: 'more than human' approaches to economic life; a
'post-structural political economy' of food and agriculture; and
calls for more 'enactive', performative research approaches. This
volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the
reflective insights of more than five years of international
engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work
being generated under these approaches and provides a means for
exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same
broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food,
agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical
collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies
approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of
analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic
assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all
research being enactive or performative.
Beach renourishment is the restoration of beaches that have been
depleted. The text deals with the sources of beach sediment as well
as the causes and typical responses to beach erosion, before
discussion of beach renourishment. Some of the first documented
renourishment projects were undertaken in the early 1900's on the
east coast of the United States. Several countries have since
renourished beaches, particularly during the past few decades. Most
projects have been in the United States, the United Kingdom, some
European countries and Australia. These are reviewed and experience
from various beach renourishment projects used for discussion of
the following topics: 1. The need for preliminary investigations 2.
Sources of sediment for beach renourishment 3. Methods of beach
renourishment 4. Design considerations 5. Monitoring changes after
beach renourishment 6. Assessment of performance 7. Modelling of
beach renourishment 8. Beach renourishment for coast protection 9.
Environmental impacts 10. Costs and benefits 11. Response of
renourished beaches to a rising sea level
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the
political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider
examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural
sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be
summarized as: 'more than human' approaches to economic life; a
'post-structural political economy' of food and agriculture; and
calls for more 'enactive', performative research approaches. This
volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the
reflective insights of more than five years of international
engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work
being generated under these approaches and provides a means for
exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same
broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food,
agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical
collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies
approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of
analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic
assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all
research being enactive or performative.
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