A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia

1. Introduction: The Broad Contours of Exurban Landscape Change
Laura E. Taylor, Patrick T. Hurley

2. From Swamp to Ridgeline: Exploring Exurbia in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California
Patrick T. Hurley, Laura E. Taylor

3. Divergent Perspectives and Contested Ecologies: Three Cases of Land-Use Change in Calaveras County, California
Colleen C. Hiner

4. Rural Residential Development and Its Discontents: A Political Ecology of Sprawl Containment in Wallowa County, Oregon, USA
Jesse Abrams

5. Competing or Compatible Capitalisms? Exurban Sprawl and High-Value Agriculture in Southwestern Oregon
Innisfree McKinnon

6. “In the Real Estate Business Whether We Admit It or Not”: Timber and Exurban Development in Central Oregon
Brent Olson

7. Death by a Thousand Cuts? The Moral Terrain of Neoliberal Environmental Governance in the South Carolina Lowcountry, USA
Annette Watson, Kate Skaggs

8. “If That Would Have Happened”: The Moral Imperative of Environmental History
Michael H. Finewood, Lou Martin

9. No (Back)Sliding: Amenity Migration, Viewsheds, and Contesting Steep Slope Ordinances in Western North Carolina
Jessica McCallum Breen, Patrick T. Hurley, Laura E. Taylor

10. The Paradox of Engagement: Land Stewardship and Invasive Weeds in Amenity Landscapes
Peter Klepeis, Nicholas Gill

11. Politics of Landscape Transformation in Exurban King County, Washington
Jenna H. Tilt, Lee K. Cerveny

12. Redux: A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia Photo Album
Laura E. Taylor, Innisfree McKinnon, Jacob McLean

13. Conclusion: Moving Beyond Competing Rural Capitalisms and Uneven Environment Management in Exurbia
Patrick T. Hurley, Laura E. Taylor

Nyckelord: Environment, Nature Conservation, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Ecology, Human Geography