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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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A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study
James L. N. Wood,Melissa Leach,Linda Waldman,Hayley MacGregor,Anthony R. Fooks,Kate E. Jones,Olivier Restif,Dina K. N. Dechmann,David T. S. Hayman,Kate S. Baker,Kate S. Baker,Alison J. Peel,Alison J. Peel,Alexandra O. Kamins,Alexandra O. Kamins,Jakob Fahr,Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu,Richard Suu-Ire,Richard Suu-Ire,Robert F. Breiman,Jonathan H. Epstein,Hume Field,Andrew A. Cunningham +22 more
TL;DR: A novel framework for the holistic and interdisciplinary investigation of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers is proposed, using the spillover of bat pathogens as a case study.
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Political ecologies of health
TL;DR: It is asserted that political ecology would contribute by examining the political economy of disease, interrogating health discourses, and understanding the interactions between social and environmental systems.
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Trees, Crops and Soil Fertility: Concepts and Research Methods
Götz Schroth,Fergus Sinclair +1 more
TL;DR: A review of both social and biophysical aspects of soil use and research in agroforestry in the tropics, with an emphasis on nutrient-poor forest and savanna soils, is provided in this article.
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Tracking Invasive Land Covers in India or Why Our Landscapes Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article explored the land cover effects of state-sponsored modernization efforts in the semiarid Godwar region of Rajasthan, India using satellite imagery, historical data, household production information, and the discourse of state planners.
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Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology: An Introduction to Supplement 20
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual tool for noticing landscape structure, with special attention to what we call "modular simplifi ciency", is presented. But this tool requires spatial as well as temporal analysis.