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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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Green and REDD? Towards a Political Ecology of Deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia
TL;DR: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) program is poised to radically restructure forest management and po...
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Building an indigenous evidence-base for tribally-led habitat conservation policies
Lily Gadamus,Julie Raymond-Yakoubian,Roy Ashenfelter,Austin Ahmasuk,Vera Metcalf,George Noongwook +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, an in- digenous evidence-base for ice seal and walrus habitat conservation in the Bering Strait region of Alaska was built by using qualitative methods to document the knowledge of 82 local expert seal and Walrus hunters.
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The elephant in the room: capitalism and global environmental change
TL;DR: A survey of article titles in this journal reveals none that referred to capitalism and only two in another leading journal in the field, Global Environmental Politics (Humphreys, 2003; Őzler and Obach, 2009) as mentioned in this paper.
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Scaling Up Political Ecology: The Case of Illegal Pesticides on Fresh Vegetables Imported into the United States, 1996–2006
TL;DR: In this paper, a multiscale analysis of data from analytical chemistry tests of pesticide residues conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on fresh vegetables from 1996 to 2006 is presented.
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Introducing Critical Physical Geography
TL;DR: The Critical Physical Geography (CPG) field as mentioned in this paper is the emerging field of critical physical geography, which aims to integrate attention to power relations and their material impacts with deep knowledge of particular biophysical systems.