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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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Political Constraints on Adaptive Governance Environmental NGO Networks in Nanjing, China
Matthew Gaudreau,Huhua Cao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a network of local environmental organizations working to combat pollution in China is investigated, and the authors investigate the impact of rapid urbanization and industrialization on ecological systems in China.
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Are We Them? Textual and Literary Representations of the Chinese in Twentieth-Century Thailand
TL;DR: This paper studied how the Chinese in Siam/Thailand are portrayed in Thai language texts, that is, prose fiction and non-fiction produced in the twentieth century (I will not include related areas such as movies, television drama, music, and cartoons).
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Tracking penguins, sensing petroleum: “Data gaps” and the politics of marine ecology in the South Atlantic:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how disputed oil interests become embedded in data infrastructures for environmental governance in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) using ethnographic research.
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Global economic imperatives, crisis generation and local spaces of engagement in the Chilean aquaculture industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the 2007 ISA virus outbreak in Chilean salmon aquaculture, coupled with insights from post-structural political ecology, as an opportunity to examine the institutional architecture and discursive hegemony of particular production strategies that silenced local experiences with the industry in favour of continuing exploitation.
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Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin
Gabrielle D. Daoust,Jan F. Selby +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the case of Lake Chad, which over the last decade has become a poster child for climate conflict and find that it is essentially a political construct, reflecting a combination of questionable epistemic manoeuvres and geopolitical, economic and climate mitigation agendas.
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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.