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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 Struggle over Adat Forest Rights in Upland Banten, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate local institutional arrangements and the regulation of forest access and control in the wake of the 2013 decision of the Indonesian Constitutional Court, which recognised indigenous peoples' rights over forest territory.
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The Political Ecology of Chinese Large Dams in Cambodia: Implications, Challenges and Lessons Learnt from the Kamchay Dam
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess China's involvement in the development of large dams' in Cambodia and its impacts on the access of natural resources such as water and energy by dam builders, local communities and the government.
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Fuel wood value index of woody tree species from Mamlay Watershed in South Sikkim, India.
TL;DR: In this paper, wood attributes such as calorific values, wood density, moisture and ash content of 66 woody (12 subtropical and 54 temperate) species from temperate and sub-tropical natural forest of Sikkim, India, were examined and used for estimating a fuel wood value index (FVI).
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Reinvigorating a political ecology of the global agri-food system
TL;DR: A critical review of research on the global agri-food system directly or indirectly identified as political ecology can be found in this paper, where food, famine and agricultural production were important topics to early proponents of political ecology, especially with regards to a critique of neo-Malthusian thought.
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Geography and engagement with UN development goals: Rethinking development or perpetuating the status quo?
TL;DR: It is sensible to assert that geographers ought to participate in an ongoing discussion about the UN development goals because development will be better for it as discussed by the authors, and I largely agree with this sentiment.