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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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Integrating ecosystem services into tropical commodity value chains – cocoa, soy and palm oil. Dutch policy options from an innovation system approach
TL;DR: Wageningen et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a discourse analysis of the way Dutch policies and practice address ecosystem services, updating the report of a forerunner study on the timber chain.
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Engaging within the Academy: A Call for Critical Physical Geography
TL;DR: For political ecology, the answer to Blaikie's (2012) question is painfully obvious; it's just painful as discussed by the authors, and it's difficult to understand what is wrong with those documents and ideas, but that does not often crystallize into determined engagement in reworking them.
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Social-ecological Systems of Latin America: Complexities and ChallengesSocial Valuation of Ecosystem Services at Local Scale: Challenges for the Management of a Multiple-Use Coastal and Marine Protected Area (MU-CMPA): Isla Grande de Atacama: Chile
Luisa E. Delgado,Víctor H. Marín,Marcela Torres-Gómez,Enrique Calfucura,Eugenio Figueroa B.,Yongjiu Xu,Yanhong Li,Chunfang Zhang,Carlos Vale,Lúcia Guilhermino,Richard Murphy,Yusuke Yokoyama,Stephen P Obrochta,Jian-xin Zhao +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss both concepts, based on the idea that social-ecological systems should be studied using a postnormal perspective, and provide an example of the study of a Latin American social ecological system: the Rio Cruces wetland.
Power, progress and impoverishment: plantations, hydropower, ecological change and community transformation inHinboun District, Lao PDR: a field report
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Making Governance series, where they discuss the importance of makinggovernance in decision-making, and the role of decision-makers, etc.
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Forest/woodlands resource conservation and environmental education in rural Africa : a comparative study of Nigeria and South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor was presented.