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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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Small‐scale commodity frontiers: The bioeconomy value chain of castor oil in Madagascar
TL;DR: The authors examines the social and political economic relations surrounding small-scale production of the feedstock castor oil plant (castor, Ricinus communis) in the deep south of Madagascar, and adopts a regional and feminist political ecology approach to illustrate what is behind this discursive cloak of development imaginaries, making visible the social relations surrounding castor production and demonstrating the historical marginalization involved in producing the frontier.
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Political Ecologies of Dynamic Wetlands: Hydrosocial Waterscapes in the Okavango Delta
TL;DR: In this paper, the coupled interactions between social and ecological systems have been analyzed in the context of geography and related disciplines, and the results of these studies have usefully analyzed the multifaceted nature of social and ecology systems.
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Woodfuel Discourses and the Re-framing of Wood Energy
TL;DR: In this paper, three extant discourses (forestry, conservation, and sustainability) are examined, with an emphasis on their origins, structure, content and links to policy, and the processes implicated in the evolution of a fourth, emergent, discourse are also highlighted.
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Cyclone Sidr and its aftermath : everyday life, power and marginality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how everyday vulnerabilities of a coastal community, which is ignored in the powerful knowledge framing, limit peoples' ability to withstand a cyclone, through rebuilding, relief support, access to natural resources in land, water and forest, alternative income opportunities, patron-client networks, and local power dynamics.
Evaluating Effectiveness in Climate Change Adaptation and Socially-Engaged Climate Research
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review of political ecology, science and technology studies, and evaluation theory and methodologies for climate change adaptation is presented, with a focus on climate adaptation.
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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.