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The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries

Reed Hertford
- 01 Oct 1985 - 
- Vol. 140, Iss: 4, pp 309-310
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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.

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Participatory exclusion – Cyclone Sidr and its aftermath

TL;DR: This article explored the political economy of post-Sidr interventions from an ethnographic account, finding that marginality is a production of ongoing disaster interventions which favour the relatively well-off over the structurally poor.
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Environmental policy in Ethiopia: a rejoinder to Keeley and Scoones

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on extensive research on soil erosion processes in Ethiopia since 1994, in intense cooperation with farmers and local authorities, and challenge the conclusions of a paper published in this journal on environmental rehabilitation and rapid agricultural intensification for food self-sufficiency in Ethiopia (Keeley & Scoones 2000).
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A Discourse on Dutch Colonial Forest Policy and Science in Indonesia at the Beginning of the 20th Century

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the arguments behind the decisions of Dutch Colonial Government and its implications to current policy framework, and show that science became an instrument of the Forest Service during the Dutch colonial era, as a means of exerting greater power and control over the forested land.
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Settlement, livelihoods and identity in Southern Tanzania : a comparative history of the Ngoni and Ndendeuli

David Edwards
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative history of two neighbouring ethnic groups in Songea District and their agroecological environments is presented, where the Ngoni, a branch of the tllfecane migrations from South Africa which dominated southern Tanzania in the late nineteenth century, and the Ndendeuli, one of numerous indigenous groups that were created by partial incorporation into the expanding Ngonis State.
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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

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.