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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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Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene
TL;DR: The authors argue that the Anthropocene is characterized not only by anthropogenic dominance of the Earth's ecosystems but also by new forms of environmental governance and institutions, which are called global assemblages.
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Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies
TL;DR: Zimmerer and Bassett as mentioned in this paper have published a collection of previously published work, including a survey of the Zimmerer-Bassett work. v and 310 pp., maps, diags, notes, and index.
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Environmental Science Theory: Concepts and Methods in a One-World, Problem-Oriented Paradigm
TL;DR: The Problem-in-Context framework as discussed by the authors is a conceptual framework for environmental science in The Netherlands, and it has been applied in a variety of fields. But it is not suitable for the field of computer science.
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Bridging Political Ecology and STS: A Field Analysis of the Rosgen Wars
TL;DR: In this article, a field analysis of the Rosgen Wars, a fight that has convulsed the American stream restoration field since the mid-1990s, demonstrates how Bourdieu's analytical framework can bridge political ecology and science and technology studies, revealing the political economic relations central to the development of scientific knowledge claims, education, authority, and policy.