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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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Anthropogenic fires, forest resources, and local livelihoods at chyulu hills, kenya
TL;DR: Kamau et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted 12 focus group discussions and 6 transect walks with Kamba and Maasai participants who reported 22 reasons why they use fires and their influence on local woody plant resources.
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‘This scene is itself living’: Buildings as landscapes in transatlantic human geography, 1870–1970:
TL;DR: In what sense are houses themselves living things? If they live and act, how to conceive of the relationship between built and natural landscapes? as discussed by the authors explores the question of what houses do to the people who live with them.
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Incorporating collaboration and motivation for effective management of protected areas in Nigeria
TL;DR: In this article, the authors aimed at extending the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) framework for protected area management by collaborating with the local communities and enhancing the role of managers.
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Preparing for REDD: Forest Governance Challenges in Peru's Central Selva
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a political ecology approach to examine forest governance in Peru's Central Selva region and find that state authorities are critically under-capacitated for their remit, while NGO efforts in the area appear disperse and uncoordinated.
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Understanding the dynamics of sustainability transitions: the Home Insulation Program
TL;DR: The Home Insulation Program (HIP) in Australia is an outstanding example of a contemporary attempt to intervene in a socio-technical regime as mentioned in this paper, which was implemented under the then Australian Labor Party government led by Kevin Rudd, was targeted at stimulating the retrofit insulation industry.