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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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Participation in community Landcare groups in the Philippines: a social capital perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a logistic regression model was used to analyze factors influencing farmers' investment in social capital in the form embodied in membership of a local Landcare group in the Philippines, showing that individual and group-level characteristics lead to different degrees of investment in community-based activities such as Landcare.
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The evolving global agri-food system and African–Eurasian food flows
TL;DR: This paper surveys the geographic literature on two inter-related themes: the global food crisis and the New Green Revolution, with a particular focus on Asian-African connections, highlighting the way in which this research has been evolving over time and the contributions of the geographic lens relative to other disciplinary perspectives.
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Aiding regional instability? The geopolitical paradox of Japanese development assistance to China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Japan's aid to China may unintentionally diminish Japan's and the East Asian region's long-term security for two reasons: first, similar to other nations receiving such assistance, this aid may allow China to reallocate scarce capital to military modernisation, which may enable China to better suppress internal dissent and carry out a more aggressive foreign policy.
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From Historical Narratives to Circular Economy: De-Complexifying the "Desertification" Debate.
Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir,Andrea Colantoni,Enrico Maria Mosconi,Stefano Poponi,Simona Fortunati,Luca Salvati,Filippo Gambella +6 more
TL;DR: Focusing specifically on advanced economies in the world, this review contributes to systematize multiple—sometimes entropic—interpretations of desertification processes into a more organized framework, giving value to methodological interplays and specific interpretations of the latent processes underlying land degradation.
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Changing forest coverage and understanding of deforestation in Nepal Himalayas
Prem Sagar Chapagain,Tor H. Aase +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to examine the debates in the light of recent events and circumstances related to environmental processes in general and forest management of Nepal in particular, and tried to discern changes in forest policies, their implication on forest management and various understandings of deforestation in Nepal Himalayas that are salient in the scientific literature.