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  Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador

  Wiley Online Library, 2020

  Creating private property rights and establishing land markets were fundamental to the historical development of capitalism in the Global North and remain at the centre of capitalist development in the Global South. This article contributes to debates about these processes by analysing the relationship between land markets and indigenous peoples in Highland Ecuador.
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  Resource nationalism: Enabler or spoiler of effectiveness in 'new oil' Tanzania's petroleum sector?

  Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2020

  A great deal of attention has been paid to the distributional aspects of resource nationalism in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, but less is known about its effects on the state’s capacity.
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  Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in Southern Madagascar

  Elsevier, 2020

  Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology of violence and warfare, this paper explores strategies ‘from above’ in relation to the establis
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  For the community, by the community: building resilience through infrastructure in rural India

  Acclimatise, 2019

  The Resilience Shift wants to share good work by others, in this case, a technical assistance project supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This case study tells the story of what good practice looks like for resilient infrastructure.
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  Political ecology and differential vulnerabilities to droughts among livestock farmers in South Africa: A case study of Mpakeni community

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2020

  Most of South Africa’s black rural population reside in the former homelands or Bantustans, commonly referred to as communal areas by the post-apartheid government (Clark and Luwaya 2017). Amongst a variety of livelihood activities that black rural households engage in, livestock production offers multiple-use value, although its contribution to local livelihood is sometimes underestimated (C.
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  Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development and environment

  Elsevier, 2019

  Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas.
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  Barriers to urban shelter self-recovery in Philippines and Nepal: lessons for humanitarian policy and practice

  The British Academy, 2019

  Most households affected by disasters reconstruct their houses themselves by self-building or employing local labour: they ‘self-recover’. Humanitarian agencies’ experience in assisting self-recovery in urban communities is limited; little is known about how to support it in practice.
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  Raising awareness of environmental change in the Maldives

  Impact Initiative, 2019

  sland communities in the Maldives are experiencing environmental change on a daily basis due to coastal erosion, the accumulation of waste at sea and on beaches, and the rapid expansion of the built environment.
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  Subsidy reform and distributive justice in fisheries

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2019

  While most fisheries are already overexploited, many governments allocate capacity-enhancing subsidies to the fishing sector, encouraging further overfishing. Target 14.6 of Sustainable Development Goal 14 and WTO negotiations to eliminate harmful subsidies both call for action on reform.
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  Governance Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (GAPA): early experience of a multi-stakeholder methodology for enhancing equity and effectiveness

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2018

  We are increasingly recognising that governance is key to enhancing the effectiveness, equity and sustainability of conservation efforts. There is abundant literature on the theory of governance and conservation practitioners are increasingly familiar with the concepts of accountability, effective participation and equitable benefit sharing.

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