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The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
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Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an analytical framework for analyzing rural livelihoods in terms of their sustainability and their implications for rural poverty, arguing that the analysis of rural livelihood needs to understand people's access to five types of capital asset and the ways in which they combine and transform those assets in the building of livelihoods that as far as possible meet their material and their experiential needs.
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A Theory of Access.
Jesse C. Ribot,Nancy Lee Peluso +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define access as the ability to derive benefits from things, broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things" and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property.
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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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Volatile Ecologies: Towards a Material Politics of Human—Animal Relations:
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of materials in mediating people's relationships with elephants in rural northeast India and shows that human-elephant conflict is not simply a linear outcome of interactions between elephants and people.
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The environmental quality and social justice implications of shrimp mariculture development in Honduras
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the environmental quality and social justice implications of the current prevailing development strategy in the region, the promotion of so-called nontraditional exports, and use political ecological analysis to examine the interconnections among the dominant export-led development model, the policies and actions of the state, the competition among various classes and interest groups, and the survival strategies of an increasingly impoverished population.
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Colliding Understandings of Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam: Global Claims, National Interests, and Local Struggles
TL;DR: In the course of the last decade, biodiversity conservation has become an important policy device in Vietnam's environmental sector and as discussed by the authors provides a political ecology analysis of the ascent and implementation of biodiversity conservation policy in Vietnam.
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Transnational Corporations and Livelihood Transformations in the Peruvian Andes: An Actor-Oriented Political Ecology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the use of an actor-oriented approach in political ecology studies that links the activities of transnational corporations with local human and environmental change, and use sustainable livelihoods frameworks as one way of linking these actororiented approaches to local economic, social, and environmental changes.
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Green development or greenwashing? A political ecology perspective on China’s green Belt and Road
TL;DR: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as discussed by the authors is a multibillion-dollar infrastructure program across 138 countries and counting, which has provoked concern among observers that China is exporting its pollut...