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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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Dancing to China’s Tune: Understanding the Impacts of a Rising China through the Political-Ecology Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the political ecology of a rising China is investigated in a Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2017: Political Ecology of a Rising China (JCE) article.
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Water, Water Lords, and Caste: A Village Study from Gujarat, India
TL;DR: Access to and distribution of water is deeply intertwined with structures of power as discussed by the authors, and strategies of accumulation by dispossession have acquired sustained significance under contemporary regimes of gloVe power.
Umweltwandel, Ernährungskrisen und Konflikt. Räumliche, soziale und politische Dynamiken
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an unregelmäßiger Forschung-DSF-Forschung no38-S40-K1, which is a survey of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of urban planning.
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SandLife and the death of dunes: political ecology discourses from conservation to restoration in Haverdal, Sweden
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the consequences of re-politicized discourses and practices in landscape management in a Natura 2000 area in the south-west of Sweden and conclude that landscape protection is driven by political and ideological values connected with institutionalized aesthetic components.
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Communities, natural resources, and environments: African and Asian experiences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the challenges of social mobility as a result of globalisation, economic development and migration, and the impact of this mobility on the integrity of local social networks and quality of local knowledge, marginalisation of potential participants in sustainable natural resource management from resource access and property rights.