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