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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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Power, progress and impoverishment: plantations, hydropower, ecological change and community transformation inHinboun District, Lao PDR: a field report
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Making Governance series, where they discuss the importance of makinggovernance in decision-making, and the role of decision-makers, etc.
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Forest/woodlands resource conservation and environmental education in rural Africa : a comparative study of Nigeria and South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor was presented.
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The evolution of the ‘wheat trap’: the Nigerian wheat boom
TL;DR: In this article, a long terme, les consequences socioeconomiques, agronomiques, ecologiques et pedologiques des politiques de substituts de ble importe actuellement menees par le gouvernement federal, pourraient etre desastreuses pour la production alimentaire du Nigeria du Nord, a l'interieur meme de l'etat.
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The Political Ecology of Water Use and Development
TL;DR: In this article, an actor-centered analysis is used to understand the human-environment interaction and mechanisms for environmental change in the watershed of the Boulder Creek watershed in Colorado, USA to describe how the process of Euro-American settlement and development has permanently and irreversibly altered river hydrology, ecology and geomorphology in many western North American watersheds.
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The social production of soil.
TL;DR: The theoretical basis for an interdisciplinary analysis of the social history of soil is examined in this paper, where it is argued that soil history is fundamental to any and all environmental history, not just to agricultural history, where such studies are often relegated.
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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.