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	From desert to breadbasket...to desert again? A metabolic rift in the High Plains Aquifer
	Sanderson, Matthew R.; Frey, R. Scott
通讯作者	Sanderson, MR
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY
ISSN	1073-0451
出版年	2014
卷号	21 页码:516-532
英文摘要	The High Plains region of the U.S. is one of the most important agricultural regions in the world. Much agricultural production in this semi-arid region, however, depends on the consumption of nonrenewable groundwater from the High Plains Aquifer. Although the problem has drawn significant attention from policymakers and citizens for over forty years, depletion of the Aquifer has worsened. Why does depletion persist despite widespread and ongoing concern? We explore this conundrum by placing the region into an historical, political-economic context. We focus specifically on the case of Western Kansas, and argue that the contemporary problem is rooted in the ways in which this region was articulated into broader circuits of capital and exchange. Private capital and the state incorporated the region as a source of primary raw materials, mainly agricultural products. Water-dependent agricultural resource extraction opened up a metabolic rift in the hydrological cycle that has only been exacerbated over time through unequal ecological exchange with more politically and economically central places. These structural dynamics associated with political-economic incorporation have impeded efforts to develop more sustainable uses of groundwater consumption in the region.
英文关键词	groundwater management metabolic rift High Plains Kansas
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000210023200027
WOS关键词	KANSAS
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/330635
作者单位	[Sanderson, Matthew R.] Kansas State Univ, 204 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA; [Frey, R. Scott] Univ Tennessee, 905 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA; [Sanderson, Matthew R.] Univ Adelaide, Australian Populat & Migrat Res Ctr, Adelaide, SA, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sanderson, Matthew R.,Frey, R. Scott. From desert to breadbasket...to desert again? A metabolic rift in the High Plains Aquifer[J],2014,21:516-532.
APA	Sanderson, Matthew R.,&Frey, R. Scott.(2014).From desert to breadbasket...to desert again? A metabolic rift in the High Plains Aquifer.JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY,21,516-532.
MLA	Sanderson, Matthew R.,et al."From desert to breadbasket...to desert again? A metabolic rift in the High Plains Aquifer".JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY 21(2014):516-532.