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Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We review and summarize diverse components of a catchment that can be monitored after wildfire to assess the geomorphic resilience of the river corridor in semiarid regions. We distinguish upland portions of river catchments from river corridors.
Ellen Wohl +8 more
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Mural Internacional, 2018 O presente artigo tem por objetivo compreender o fenômeno land grabbing à luz de transformações recentes na economia e política internacional. Para atingir este objetivo, busca-se, primeiramente, avançar na construção de uma definição para o fenômeno ...
Bruna Figueiredo Gonçalves
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, 2021 Land grabbing is not a novelty although it might appear so at first glance. It is indeed renowned for it has appeared consistently in history while being applied during colonial times. Colonial territories were a source of cheap land, labor and territories those territories resulted in a system of low-priced payments to peasant producers exporting ...
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Geomorphic Effects and Habitat Impacts of Large Wood at Restoration Sites in New England
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large wood (used interchangeably with the term “instream wood”), which refers to trees, logs and other wood within a channel, is beneficial to river ecosystems and is being used more frequently as a component of river restoration projects. We identified metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of large wood to promote ecological and geomorphic ...
Audrey J. Turcotte +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip +2 more
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Terra Brasilis, 2017 This article aims to understand the period between 1822 and 1850 as a moment of Brazilian history in which both the absolutization of private land property and the legalization of land grabbing were instituted simultaneously.
Gustavo Francisco Teixeira Prieto
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Land grabbing and agribusiness in Argentina: five critical dimensions for analysing corporate strategies and its impacts over unequal actors. [PDF]
Rev Agric Food Environ Stud, 2022 Sosa Varrotti AP, Ramírez DC, Serpe PC.
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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