Table of Contents

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