K S Zimmerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 53217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K S Zimmerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | K S |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerer |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERER K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3616-4862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 710 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The Global Greenhouse Boom: Emerging Geographies of Agri-Food Intensification in the Plantationocene
The global greenhouse boom is central to the accelerating intensification of agri-food systems. Perspectives and principles of critical agrarian studies, the Plantationocene, and environment-society geography are used to offer a novel approach to the global greenhouse boom. Case studies of leading greenhouse countries (Spain, China, Morocco, Mexico) illustrate distinctive dynamics that have developed during recent decades. The perspectives and ca…
Revisiting the drug crop eradication-violence nexus: A mixed-methods analysis of conflict and cooperation in traditional governance communities in Oaxaca, Mexico
Illegal crop cultivation is commonly assumed to be related to physical violence. However, consistent with the literature on natural resources access and control, findings on the illegal drug crop eradication-violence nexus are inconsistent. The lack of empirical consensus suggests the need for new conceptual and methodological approaches to investigate the local histories and broader power relations that illegal crop cultivation is embedded in. U…
Heterogeneous Perceptions of Rainfall Patterns Among Agropastoral Land Users in Sub-Saharan Africa
Human perceptions about climate change constitute knowledge built on lived experiences and such information is useful for guiding effective local-level adaptation strategies. Yet, such perceptions are rarely included in climate change adaptation plans, nor are such perceptions evaluated alongside climate-related data. People’s perceptions about climate change need to be considered, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where the impacts of climate …
Agrobiodiversity threats amid expanding woody monocultures and hopes nourished through farmer and food movements in the Mediterranean
The high biodiversity of food and agriculture (agrobiodiversity) in the Mediterranean exists in rapidly changing landscapes and food systems. The first goal of this Commentary is to explain how agrobiodiverse Mediterranean food cereals and legumes are threatened by the accelerating expansion and intensification of monocultures of woody crops—principally olive, nut, grape, and citrus monocrops—in landscapes of the western Mediterranean (Spain, Mor…
Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene: Early colonial monocropping, subaltern agrobiodiversity, and aridity in Andalus (Spain) and Coastal Peru
International audience
Global modeling of the socioeconomic, political, and environmental relations of farmer seed systems (FSS): Spatial analysis and insights for sustainable development
Accessible, high-quality seed is vital to the agricultural, food, and nutrition sovereignty needed for justice-based sustainable development. Multiregion, interdisciplinary research on farmers’ seed systems (FSS) can complement case-based and thematic approaches. This study’s goals are to (1) provide a synthetic overview of current major FSS concepts; (2) design and evaluate a novel social- and political-ecological model of FSS using globally rep…
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)
Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea
Home gardens are often the most agrobiodiverse sites in the anthropogenic environment, a space where crops and other useful plants are often transplanted from other components of the landscape. This study investigates the plant composition of home gardens and their usefulness in 12 small towns and villages—with three of these chosen as the focus for in-depth research—situated in the Jeju province of South Korea. The goal of the research is to exp…
Bridging the troubled waters of tourism studies: From social capital and rural community development to livelihood sovereignty
Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development
Expanding urbanization affects food biodiversity and broader agrobiodiversity, which are essential nutrition and ecosystem resources for sustainable development but are threatened globally. The increasingly influential nexus of urbanization-agrobiodiversity interactions has not been systematically researched. Here we design an interdisciplinary perspective to identify and understand the bidirectional interactions of agrobiodiversity in four major…
Emic Views of Community Resilience and Coastal Tourism Development
Coastal communities are among the most rapidly changing, institutionally complex, and culturally diverse in the world, and they are among the most vulnerable to anthropogenic change. While being a driver of anthropogenic change, tourism can also provide socio-economic alternatives to declining natural resource-based livelihoods for coastal residents. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of small-scale cruise tourism on coastal commun…
Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape
Entanglements of agrobiodiversity-food amid cascading migration, coca conflicts, and water development (Bolivia, 1990–2013)
Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda
Under the banner of a "New Green Revolution for Africa," agricultural intensification programs aim to make smallholder agriculture more productive as well as "climate smart". As with Green Revolutions in Asia and Mexico, agricultural innovations (hybrid seeds, agronomic engineering, market linkages,and increased use of fertilizer and pesticides) are promoted as essential catalysts of agriculture-led economic growth. Intensification programs are n…
What’s the market got to do with it? Social-ecological embeddedness and environmental practices in a local food system initiative
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene: Research advances and conceptual framework
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: Typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Commentary II: New postcolonial insights on gender, indigeneity, and development, and refractions to environment and health issues
Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability
Smallholders are crucial for global sustainability given their importance to food and nutritional security, agriculture, and biodiversity conservation. Worldwide smallholders are subject to expanded telecoupling whereby their social-ecological systems are linked to large-scale socioeconomic and environmental drivers. The present research uses the synthesis of empirical evidence to demonstrate smallholder telecoupling through the linkages stemming…
Human Geography and the “New Ecology”: The Prospect and Promise of Integration
This chapter begins with a discussion of major findings from the "new ecology". It examines three of ecological postulates in greater detail: generalized carrying capacity; area biodiversity relations, that is, biological diversity as a function of geographical area and isolation; and biodiversity-stability relations, that is, biological diversity confers ecological stability. The "new ecology" offers a sort of shorthand for a significant reorien…
Geography and the Study of Human–Environment Relations
Human–environment geography is characterized by focused integration and synthesis of the in‐depth analysis of both the multifaceted human conditions of interactions with the environment and the active dynamics of the biogeophysical world. The nine topical and thematic areas currently comprising human–environment geography are (i) human–environment interactions in hazards, risk, vulnerability, and resilience; (ii) land use, land systems, land chan…
Mountain Ecology, Remoteness, and the Rise of Agrobiodiversity: Tracing the Geographic Spaces of Human-Environment Knowledge
We use an original geographic framework and insights from science, technology, and society studies and the geohumanities to investigate the development of global environmental knowledge in tropical mountains. Our analysis demonstrates the significant relationship between current agrobiodiversity and the elevation of mountain agroecosystems across multiple countries. We use the results of this general statistical model to support our focus on moun…
Spell of the Urubamba: Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time
Daniel W. Gade. New York, NY: Springer, 2016. ix and 354 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $229.00 cloth (ISBN 978-3-319-20848-0).This new book researched and written by the not
Sustainable smallholder intensification in global change? Pivotal spatial interactions, gendered livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity
The Reworking of Conservation Geographies: Nonequilibrium Landscapes and Nature-Society Hybrids
(2000). The Reworking of Conservation Geographies: Nonequilibrium Landscapes and Nature-Society Hybrids. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 356-369
Human Geography and the “New Ecology”: The Prospect and Promise of Integration
The “new ecology” underscores the role of nonequilibrium conditions in biophysical environments, a reorientation of biological ecology based in part on biogeography. This paper describes the contributions of the “new ecology” and examines their implications for the analysis of biophysical environments in human geography, the most notable of which is a reformulation of certain key ecological postulates (generalized carrying capacity, area-biodiver…
Soil erosion and labor shortages in the Andes with special reference to Bolivia, 1953ndash;1991: "Implications for "conservation-with-development
Cultural ecology: At the interface with political ecology - the new geographies of environmental conservation and globalization
© 2006 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 10.1191/0309132506ph591pr I New conservation geographies amid globalization: introduction The worldwide expansion of conservation management areas is often showcased as a major success of modern global environmentalism. Protected-area coverage in particular has undergone extensive enlargements that are being coordinated, financed, implemented and monitored through global organizations (Brechin et al., 2003; Z…
Environmental governance through “Speaking Like an Indigenous State” and respatializing resources: Ethical livelihood concepts in Bolivia as versatility or verisimilitude
New Geographies of Energy: Introduction to the Special Issue
The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene: Research advances and conceptual framework
Rescaling irrigation in Latin America: The Cultural Images and Political Ecology of Water Resources
A pair of scales -local canal-based (or village-based) and basin-scale (or valley-wide) -is featured in the irrigation of the mountain landscapes of Latin America. These scales arose historically through the interplay of cultural images with the political ecologies of agrarian transformation. In the Cochabamba region of Bolivia, long the irrigated breadbasket of the south-central Andes, the Inca state (c. 1495-1539) imposed canal-based irrigation…
Biochemical and folk assessment of variability of andean cultivated potatoes
Cultural ecology (and political ecology) in the ‘environmental borderlands: Exploring the Expanded Connectivities Within Geography
Cultural ecology: Placing households in human-environment studies - the cases of tropical forest transitions and agrobiodiversity change
Cultural ecology is today at a place of rapidly expanding interconnections with the growing number of human-environment approaches in geography and other fields. Productive interconnections are evidenced, for example, in the extensive debate and discussion within geography that surround the varied relations (e.g., theory, methods, roles of science and representation, scale and subject matter) of cultural ecology to political ecology, since the la…
Overlapping Patchworks of Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Toward a Regional-Global Landscape Model
Soil Erosion and Social (Dis)Courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the Nature of Environmental Degradation
Karl S. Zimmerer, Soil Erosion and Social (Dis)Courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the Nature of Environmental Degradation, Economic Geography, Vol. 69, No. 3, Environment and Development, Part 1 (Jul., 1993), pp. 312-327
Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region
This study integrates regional political ecology concepts via the ideas of structuration, a politics of place, and production ecology in order to examine the ecological and social relations embodied in wetland agriculture. Montane bogs were converted into fields roughly twenty years ago when peasant cultivators in Colquepata District (southern Peru) responded to a convergence of production and demand incentives. Environmental conditions, regional…
Labor Shortages and Crop Diversity in the Southern Peruvian Sierra
Globalization and Multi-spatial Trends in the Coverage of Protected-Area Conservation (1980–2000)
This study is focused on the global expansion of protected-area coverage that occurred during the 1980--2000 period. We examine the multi-scale patterning of four of the basic facets of this expansion: i) estimated increases at the world-regional and country-level scales of total protected-area coverage; ii) transboundary protected areas; iii) conservation corridor projects; and iv) type of conservation management. Geospatial patterning of protec…
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: Typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Geographies of Seed Networks for Food Plants (Potato, Ulluco) and Approaches to Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Andean Countries
This study is focused on the geographic structure of seed networks in the conservation-targeted Andean potato and ulluco crops. Results demonstrate that farmers of eastern Cuzco are dependent on multiscale networks of seed procurement that are spatially and socially differentiated at the levels of individual farmers and households, intracommunity farm units, the rural community, and groups of multiple communities. Scale-related differences exist …
Sustainable smallholder intensification in global change? Pivotal spatial interactions, gendered livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity
Conserving Agrobiodiversity amid Global Change, Migration, and Nontraditional Livelihood Networks: The Dynamic Uses of Cultural Landscape Knowledge
Zimmerer, K. S. 2014. Conserving agrobiodiversity amid global change, migration, and nontraditional livelihood networks: the dynamic uses of cultural landscape knowledge. Ecology and Society 19(2): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06316-190201
Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations
This study uses an intellectual history approach to construct a retrospective on Annals nature–society geography during the past century (1911–2010). It begins by identifying six areas of topics and approaches that have emerged as primary clusters in the 1990s and 2000s: (1) environmental governance and political ecology; (2) environmental hazards, risk, and vulnerability science; (3) land use and cover change science; (4) human–environment inter…
What’s the market got to do with it? Social-ecological embeddedness and environmental practices in a local food system initiative
Agriculture, livelihoods, and globalization: The analysis of new trajectories (and avoidance of just-so stories) of human-environment change and conservation
Geographical approaches to crop conservation: The partitioning of genetic diversity in andean potatoes
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Plant Migration: The Dynamics of Geographic Patterning in Seed Plant Species
Our Daily Bread: The Peasant Question and Family Farming in the Colombian Andes
Biochemical and folk assessment of variability of andean cultivated potatoes
Agricultura de barbecho sectorizada en las alturas de Paucartambo: Luchas sobre la ecología del espacio productivo durante los siglos XVI y XX
A lo largo de gran parte de los Andes Centrales, entre el sur de Bolivia y la parte central del Perú, el uso de la tierra en las zonas agrícolas más altas está organizado en una forma de producción diferente conocida como sistema de barbecho sectorizado. Denominado a través de una variedad de nombres en las diferentes regiones de los andes Centrales (suyu, aynoqa, mañay, laymi, manda, suerte, turnos, que son revisados en Mayer 1979 y Orlove y God…
Geographical approaches to crop conservation: The partitioning of genetic diversity in andean potatoes
Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region
This study integrates regional political ecology concepts via the ideas of structuration, a politics of place, and production ecology in order to examine the ecological and social relations embodied in wetland agriculture. Montane bogs were converted into fields roughly twenty years ago when peasant cultivators in Colquepata District (southern Peru) responded to a convergence of production and demand incentives. Environmental conditions, regional…
Labor Shortages and Crop Diversity in the Southern Peruvian Sierra
Biological Diversity and Local Development: "Popping Beans" in the Central Andes
Biologically diverse popping beans have long been of significant use to Central Andean peasant agriculturalists. The present contribution of popping beans to peasant livelihoods could be expanded as part of development efforts aimed at regional food self-sufficiency. Popping beans offer agroecological, nutritional, and cultural resources to rural households. Prepared through parching, they significantly reduce the need for firewood and provide a …
Physical Geography of Tropical Latin America: The Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Environments
For the past 40 years, studies of physical geography in tropical Latin America have concentrated on the spatial and temporal diversity of biophysical environments and biota. Environmental heterogeneity arises from historical and present‐day interaction between climatic, geomorphologic, edaphic, and biogeographic systems. Recent research emphasizes three major themes involving these systems: Quaternary climate change; human‐altered biophysical env…
Agricultural biodiversity and peasant rights to subsistence in the central Andes during Inca rule
Soil erosion and labor shortages in the Andes with special reference to Bolivia, 1953ndash;1991: "Implications for "conservation-with-development
Soil Erosion and Social (Dis)Courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the Nature of Environmental Degradation
Karl S. Zimmerer, Soil Erosion and Social (Dis)Courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the Nature of Environmental Degradation, Economic Geography, Vol. 69, No. 3, Environment and Development, Part 1 (Jul., 1993), pp. 312-327
Mountain Agriculture and Crop Genetic Resources
Human Geography and the “New Ecology”: The Prospect and Promise of Integration
The “new ecology” underscores the role of nonequilibrium conditions in biophysical environments, a reorientation of biological ecology based in part on biogeography. This paper describes the contributions of the “new ecology” and examines their implications for the analysis of biophysical environments in human geography, the most notable of which is a reformulation of certain key ecological postulates (generalized carrying capacity, area-biodiver…
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes
Overlapping Patchworks of Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Toward a Regional-Global Landscape Model
Commentary: Social Science Intellectuals, Sustainable Development and the Political Economies of Bolivia
Commentary: Social Science Intellectuals, Sustainable Development and the Political Economies of Bolivia
Sustainable development has become used as a master framework for development policies in Bolivia. It also has become a major source of employment for many social science intellectuals. Their activities are set amid the coupling of repressive neo‐liberal policies with the progressive pluri‐cultural and multi‐ethnic reforms (the pluri‐multi reforms). Their work is based also on the coupling of academic‐applied livelihoods and identities. Shifts in…
The Reworking of Conservation Geographies: Nonequilibrium Landscapes and Nature-Society Hybrids
(2000). The Reworking of Conservation Geographies: Nonequilibrium Landscapes and Nature-Society Hybrids. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 356-369
Rescaling irrigation in Latin America: The Cultural Images and Political Ecology of Water Resources
A pair of scales -local canal-based (or village-based) and basin-scale (or valley-wide) -is featured in the irrigation of the mountain landscapes of Latin America. These scales arose historically through the interplay of cultural images with the political ecologies of agrarian transformation. In the Cochabamba region of Bolivia, long the irrigated breadbasket of the south-central Andes, the Inca state (c. 1495-1539) imposed canal-based irrigation…
Ecological Imperialism
Geography (63 works) · Ecology (43 works) · Biology (36 works) · Agriculture (33 works) · Economics (33 works) · Political science (31 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (24 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Archaeology (21 works)