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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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Gender, justice and livelihoods in the creation and demise of forests in North Western Ethiopia’s Zeghie Peninsula
TL;DR: The Zeghie Peninsula: Power and Politics in a Sacred Space as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of coffee in Greece, focusing on the origins of coffee and its history in Greece.
Anthropogenic fires, forest resources, and local livelihoods at chyulu hills, kenya
TL;DR: Kamau et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted 12 focus group discussions and 6 transect walks with Kamba and Maasai participants who reported 22 reasons why they use fires and their influence on local woody plant resources.
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‘This scene is itself living’: Buildings as landscapes in transatlantic human geography, 1870–1970:
TL;DR: In what sense are houses themselves living things? If they live and act, how to conceive of the relationship between built and natural landscapes? as discussed by the authors explores the question of what houses do to the people who live with them.
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Incorporating collaboration and motivation for effective management of protected areas in Nigeria
TL;DR: In this article, the authors aimed at extending the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) framework for protected area management by collaborating with the local communities and enhancing the role of managers.
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Preparing for REDD: Forest Governance Challenges in Peru's Central Selva
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a political ecology approach to examine forest governance in Peru's Central Selva region and find that state authorities are critically under-capacitated for their remit, while NGO efforts in the area appear disperse and uncoordinated.
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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.