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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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Understanding Policy Change in Developing Countries: The Spheres of Influence Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical framework to explain the domestic responses of developing countries to global environmental concerns, drawing on research in Costa Rica and Bolivia, they situate the impact of global environmentalism in the context of complex, decades-long domestic struggles to create effective institutions.
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Participatory exclusion – Cyclone Sidr and its aftermath
Md. Nadiruzzaman,David Wrathall +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the political economy of post-Sidr interventions from an ethnographic account, finding that marginality is a production of ongoing disaster interventions which favour the relatively well-off over the structurally poor.
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Environmental policy in Ethiopia: a rejoinder to Keeley and Scoones
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on extensive research on soil erosion processes in Ethiopia since 1994, in intense cooperation with farmers and local authorities, and challenge the conclusions of a paper published in this journal on environmental rehabilitation and rapid agricultural intensification for food self-sufficiency in Ethiopia (Keeley & Scoones 2000).
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A Discourse on Dutch Colonial Forest Policy and Science in Indonesia at the Beginning of the 20th Century
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the arguments behind the decisions of Dutch Colonial Government and its implications to current policy framework, and show that science became an instrument of the Forest Service during the Dutch colonial era, as a means of exerting greater power and control over the forested land.
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Settlement, livelihoods and identity in Southern Tanzania : a comparative history of the Ngoni and Ndendeuli
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative history of two neighbouring ethnic groups in Songea District and their agroecological environments is presented, where the Ngoni, a branch of the tllfecane migrations from South Africa which dominated southern Tanzania in the late nineteenth century, and the Ndendeuli, one of numerous indigenous groups that were created by partial incorporation into the expanding Ngonis State.