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'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania. Stahl argues that the area's postsocialist transformations led to changes in the creation and distribution of resource rent, which shifted land users' incentives and productive decision-making and ultimately led to environmental change. ‘Rent from the Land’ brings together five years of research on Albanian transformation, and breaks new ground by discussing postsocialist transformation from a political ecology perspective.
‘What is most impressive about Stahl’s approach […] is the depth of his attention to ‘doing’ political ecology. There are many reasons to appreciate this book, not least of which is its clear prose and organization, which make it accessible to anyone unfamiliar with its theoretical or empirical context.’ —Brian Grabbatin, ‘Environment and Planning’
Johannes Stahl works on natural resource governance and institutions in agriculture and forestry. He was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley and holds PhD and MA degrees in Agriculture and Social Anthropology.
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Albanian Socialism; Chapter 3: Patterns of Land Use Change; Chapter 4: Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: The Dissolution of Collective Structures; Chapter 5: Unraveling the Socialist Countryside: Differentiation among Villages and Its Effects on Land Use; Chapter 6: The Crisis of Capital and Labor: Effects on Land Use within Villages; Chapter 7: The Fate of the Postsocialist Forest; Chapter 8: Rent from the Land; Glossary