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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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Counting on the environment: measuring and marketing ecosystem services in oregon
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that environmental regulators, eco-entrepreneurs, and conservationists who actually design and implement metrics are not so easily brought into agreement, and that the short-term and long-term effects of market design may differ; barriers to the market now may prove to be its success later.
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Gender Relations and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Artisanal Gemstone Mining in Taita Taveta County, Kenya.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a research study on the relationship between gender relations and artisanal mining in the field of mining coal seam gas and discuss the objectives of the research study and justification of the study.
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Integrating knowledge from social and natural sciences for biodiversity management: The asymmetric information trap
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare different approaches for integrating knowledge from ecology, economics, and various social science disciplines in an integrated manner, and find that state-of-the-art knowledge from both disciplines is used in the integrated approach.
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Fruit marketing systems in Asia: patterns, problems and policies.
Deepak M. Pokhrel,Gopal B. Thapa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed fruit marketing systems in selected South, Southeast and East Asian countries in view of the important role of marketing in promotion of fruit farming, and found that the marketing system is most inefficient in South Asian countries due to rudimentary infrastructure and shortage of necessary support services and facilities.
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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.