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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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The evolution of the ‘wheat trap’: the Nigerian wheat boom
TL;DR: In this article, a long terme, les consequences socioeconomiques, agronomiques, ecologiques et pedologiques des politiques de substituts de ble importe actuellement menees par le gouvernement federal, pourraient etre desastreuses pour la production alimentaire du Nigeria du Nord, a l'interieur meme de l'etat.
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The Political Ecology of Water Use and Development
TL;DR: In this article, an actor-centered analysis is used to understand the human-environment interaction and mechanisms for environmental change in the watershed of the Boulder Creek watershed in Colorado, USA to describe how the process of Euro-American settlement and development has permanently and irreversibly altered river hydrology, ecology and geomorphology in many western North American watersheds.
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The social production of soil.
TL;DR: The theoretical basis for an interdisciplinary analysis of the social history of soil is examined in this paper, where it is argued that soil history is fundamental to any and all environmental history, not just to agricultural history, where such studies are often relegated.
Suffering for Land: Environmental Hazards and Popular Struggles in the Brahmaputra Valley (Assam), India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an in-depth analysis of the role of the Indian state in the making of hazardscapes in Assam, thereby advancing our understanding of the state, especially in the postcolonial context.
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Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction
TL;DR: A means of operationalising intersectional, situational framings of identity to achieve greater and more productive understandings of hazard vulnerability than available through the application of general determinants of vulnerability to specific places and cases is illustrated.