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The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
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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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Every ditch is different: Barriers and opportunities for collaboration for agricultural water conservation and security in the Colorado River Basin
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the legal, social, and cultural barriers to agricultural water conservation collaboration in the case study regions and identified key hydrological and legal structural openings and related social conditions that have facilitated collaboration in these six cases.
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Political Ecology and its Engagements with Conservation and Development
TL;DR: For some time, various commentators have raised concerns about the limited engagement and "impact" of political ecology in the policy, development and conservation worlds (Robbins 2004, Walker 2006, Blaikie 2001, Blabie 2012) as mentioned in this paper.
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The quinoa boom in Southern Altiplano of Bolivia : Agrarian transformations, discourses and socio-environmental tensions
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the transformation of the production of quinua (Chenopodium quinoa) in the Altiplano Sur de Bolivia is presented, focusing on the degradación de the productividad of the crop.
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Rural energy systems and the rural development process: a case study from Limpopo Province
TL;DR: In this article, the causal powers of poverty and the role of public institutions are discussed, focusing on energy as a basic need and the importance of research in the area of poverty alleviation.
Land, rights, and the practice of making a living in pre-Saharan Morocco
TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between land tenure and livelihoods in pre-Saharan Morocco as an ethical struggle over subsistence rights and the definition of community and found that marginalized families without access to land mobilized to divide collective lands and secure individual freehold tenure.