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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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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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Using Q-methodology to identify local perspectives on wildfires in two Koyukon Athabascan communities in rural Alaska
TL;DR: In this article, sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities, and competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a commune are discussed.
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A political ecology of socio-economic differentiation: debt, inputs and liberalization reforms in southwestern Burkina Faso
Leslie C. Gray,Brian Dowd-Uribe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a rural survey of 72 heads of household in three villages in southwestern Burkina Faso to examine whether and how access to agricultural inputs, debt and liberalization reforms combine to produce rural socioeconomic differentiation based on wealth.
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Geography, paradox and environmental ethics
TL;DR: This paper reviewed ontological and epistemological tensions within geography and connected these tensions to important philosophical dimensions of environmental ethics, arguing that normative environmental ethics must be built on an adequate sensitivity to the nature/culture tension, and that environmental meta-ethics - specifically, the problem of relativism as applied to environmental discourse - must be similarly informed by the object/subject tension.
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Bound by Chains of Carbon: Ecological–Economic Geographies of Globalization
TL;DR: In an era of globalization, how are we to associate carbon emissions with particular places or peoples? Contemporary environmental science and policy often debate between assigning emissions to the specific places or people.
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The role of social capital in the promotion of conservation farming: the case of ‘landcare’ in the Southern Philippines
TL;DR: The Landcare Program in the Southern Philippines promotes simple conservation practices in upland environments through establishing and supporting community landcare groups and municipal landcare associations, thus augmenting the social capital of farmers in these locations as discussed by the authors.