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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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Subsistence and biodiversity conservation in the sundarban biosphere reserve, west bengal, india
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impacts of biodiversity conservation on local population living in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR) and found that the current management of the SBR in many ways replicates a fortress conservation model in which local fishermen are denied access to the fishing grounds in the core and sanctuary areas.
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Should states and international organizations adopt a human rights approach to fisheries policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a human rights-based approach for sustainable management of fisherfolk in the fishery sector, which fit well with wider development agendas, utilize existing legal and policy frameworks, improve accountability of donors and states to their citizens, and can have positive impacts on fisherfolk's ability and motivation to participate in fisheries management for sustainability.
Alternatives pour une réduction durable des risques de catastrophe
Jean-Christophe Gaillard,Benjamin Goodwin Wisner,Djillali Benouar,Terry Cannon,Laurence Créton-Cazanave,Julie Dekens,Maureen Fordham,Claude Gilbert,C Hewitt,Ilan Kelman,Julie Morin,A N'Diaye,Phil O'Keefe,Anthony Oliver-Smith,C Quesada,Sandrine Revet,Karen Sudmeier-Rieux,Pauline Texier,Cloé Vallette,Allan Lavell +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Gaillard et al. present an alternative for sustained disaster risk reduction in Haiti, which is based on the idea of disaster risk minimization through disaster risk mitigation.
The potential of agroforestry for soil conservation. Part I. Erosion control.
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