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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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Linking Nordic landscape geography and political ecology
TL;DR: Widgren et al. as mentioned in this paper linked Nordic landscape geography and political ecology by linking landscape geography with political ecology, and analyzed and compa cationed the results of the analysis.
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Relational rural geographies, resilience, and narratives of small-scale fruit farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
TL;DR: Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES Foundation), Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brazil as discussed by the authors.
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Ecological Crisis and Provocative Pragmatism
TL;DR: The gap between theory and practice, particularly when it comes to Marxism and the ecological crisis, has been explored in this paper, with a focus on the connection between theory-and practice.
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Land Tenure, Land Use, and Land Degradation: A Case for Sustainable Development in Pakistan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that land tenure, land use, and land degradation are interlinked in Pakistan, where uneven access to the land engenders intensification of its use by large and small holders, contributing to land degradation.
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Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues
TL;DR: Political ecology is a critical research field within anthropology and related disciplines that examines how and why economic structures and power relations drive environmental change in an increasingly interconnected world as discussed by the authors, and it provides a valuable means for tracing the broader structural forces of socio-ecological change to a thorough understanding of the impacts and responses to that change at local level.