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The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
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This article is published in Soil Science.The article was published on 1985-10-01. It has received 371 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Soil governance.read more
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A political ecology of socio-economic differentiation: debt, inputs and liberalization reforms in southwestern Burkina Faso
Leslie C. Gray,Brian Dowd-Uribe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a rural survey of 72 heads of household in three villages in southwestern Burkina Faso to examine whether and how access to agricultural inputs, debt and liberalization reforms combine to produce rural socioeconomic differentiation based on wealth.
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Geography, paradox and environmental ethics
TL;DR: This paper reviewed ontological and epistemological tensions within geography and connected these tensions to important philosophical dimensions of environmental ethics, arguing that normative environmental ethics must be built on an adequate sensitivity to the nature/culture tension, and that environmental meta-ethics - specifically, the problem of relativism as applied to environmental discourse - must be similarly informed by the object/subject tension.
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Bound by Chains of Carbon: Ecological–Economic Geographies of Globalization
TL;DR: In an era of globalization, how are we to associate carbon emissions with particular places or peoples? Contemporary environmental science and policy often debate between assigning emissions to the specific places or people.
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The role of social capital in the promotion of conservation farming: the case of ‘landcare’ in the Southern Philippines
TL;DR: The Landcare Program in the Southern Philippines promotes simple conservation practices in upland environments through establishing and supporting community landcare groups and municipal landcare associations, thus augmenting the social capital of farmers in these locations as discussed by the authors.
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Sustainable development: a critical review
TL;DR: A review of the literature that has sprung up around the concept of sustainable development indicates, however, a lack of consistency in its interpretation as mentioned in this paper, leading to inadequacies and contradictions in policy making in the context of international trade, agriculture, and forestry.
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Resilience thinking meets social theory: Situating social change in socio-ecological systems (SES) research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the extension of resilience notions to society has important limits, particularly its conceptualization of social change, and suggest that critically examining the role of knowledge at the intersections between social and environmental dynamics helps to address normative questions and to capture how power and competing value systems are not external to, but rather integral to the development and functioning of SES.
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People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
William M. Adams,Jon Hutton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the political ecology of conservation, particularly the establishment of protected areas (PAs), and dis-cuss the implications of the idea of pristine nature, the social impacts of and the politics of PA establishment and the way the benefits and costs of PAs are allocated.
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Beyond the Square Wheel: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Biodiversity Conservation as Social and Political Process
TL;DR: The authors argue that the renewed focus on authoritarian protection practices largely overlooks key aspects of social and political process including clarification of moral standpoint, legitimacy, governance, accountability, learning, and nonlocal forces.