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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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The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment
TL;DR: The Ordos Plateau of China as discussed by the authors is an account of the regional human-environmental history of the Ordos plateau, a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds.
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Uncovering the Root Causes of Soil Erosion in the Philippines
TL;DR: Soil erosion is a serious threat to the sustainability of agricultural systems in the Philippines, as in many intensively cultivated regions of the developing world, yet the ultimate causes of eros....
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Agricultural Change in Bumthang, Bhutan: Market Opportunities, Government Policies, and Climate Change
Abstract: Interviews with elderly farmers and a review of government data, policies, and programs reveal that farmers in the Bumthang District of Bhutan have transitioned from cultivating a diversity of subsistence grains through swidden farming with no external inputs in the 1980s to intensive monocropping of potatoes utilizing fertilizers and tractors in 2011. During the same time, household diets changed from locally cultivated buckwheat and barley to make greater use of purchased rice. The primary underlying driving forces noted by farmers for the changes were improved road and market access, and government prohibitions against swidden agriculture. Farmers also stated that climatic conditions have changed; however, temperature and precipitation data do not reveal significant change, although the variability of mean monthly precipitation has increased. Understanding the site- and time-specific ways in which farmers respond to underlying forces is essential to the identification and development of effective agric...
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Land use policies in Nepal: An overview
Pashupati Nepal,Narendra Raj Khanal,Narendra Raj Khanal,Yili Zhang,Yili Zhang,Basanta Paudel,Basanta Paudel,Linshan Liu +7 more
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The Persistence of Social Differentiation in the Philippine Uplands
Wolfram Dressler,Sarah Turner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how two seemingly distinct social groups (Christian migrants and indigenous Tagbanua) use their respective positions in society to mark differences in ethnic identity and livelihoods and argue that as non-governmental organisations build on notions of indigeneity as a means to facilitate their programmes, they further reinforce how each group articulates difference.
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Sustainable development: a critical review
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Resilience thinking meets social theory: Situating social change in socio-ecological systems (SES) research
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People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
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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.