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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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Left Coast Political Ecology: a manifesto
TL;DR: The Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) network as discussed by the authors is a network of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty engaged in a collective practice of political ecology grounded in strong connection to the "left Coast" of North America.
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Agro-ecological strategies in North Lampung, Indonesia: social constraints to biological management of soil fertility.
TL;DR: In this article, socio-cultural and political factors which affect the adoption of biological management of soil fertility in Javanese and Lampungese farming communities of the Province of Lampung, Indonesia are examined.
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Adaptation, conflict and cooperation in pastoralist East Africa: a case study from South Turkana, Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of adaptation is introduced as an entry point into debates surrounding the role of resources in conflict and the notion that resource uses are socially embedded and politically contingent underlines a key argument that adaptation is a contentious process and is tightly linked to resource struggles that are laden with material and symbolic importance.
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Agro-environmental Transitions in African Mountains: Shifting Socio-spatial Practices Amid State-Led Commercialization in Rwanda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of mechanization, transportation access, and government control in mountain regions throughout the world. And they propose a solution for agricultural commercialization in such regions.
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Is Greater Fishery Access Better for the Poor? Explaining De-Territorialisation of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia
Thol Dina,Jin Sato +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the government of Cambodia cancelled the fishing lots system, the de facto property rights that had granted exclusive access to certain aquatic resources to licence holders, and demonstrated that political interests such as garnering election votes and circumventing certain bureaucratic agencies explain this radical shift in policy.