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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Evolution of rocky desertification and its response to land use changes in the karst areas of Guangxi

Carsologica Sinica
This study focuses on the karst areas of Guangxi, Southwest China, which cover an area of 9.87×104 km2 (accounting for 41% of Guangxi's total land area) and feature a subtropical monsoon climate, complete karst landforms (dominated by peak cluster ...
Degen ZHU, Hui YANG, Hu ZHAO, Shaoliang SHI, Xiuqin WU, Prelovšek Mitja, Ravbar Nataša   +6 more
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Analysis of Rocky Desertification in Central Guizhou, China, Using Landsat Satellite Data [PDF]

Advances in Computer Science Research, 2015
Rocky desertification is a typical type of land degradation in the Southwestern China. It has great economical and ecological implications for the local people. Landsat images for Qingzhen city of Guizhou Province collected in 2000, 2005 and 2010 were used for Karst rocky desertification monitoring.
Y.Z Zhang, J.R Hu, S.P Luo
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Orchestrate Soil Microbial Community Assembly Along a Salix cupularis Restoration Chronosequence in a Desertified Alpine Grassland

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Our findings indicate that fungal communities exhibit higher sensitivity and highlight the dynamic regulatory function of AMF, especially under dual‐mycorrhizal symbiosis. These results provide novel mechanistic insights into soil microbe trajectories, suggesting that targeted AMF inoculation is crucial for the early‐to‐mid establishment phase of ...
Xueqi Cai, Xingpeng Hu, Fei Yan, Dongming Chen, Bingxue Xiao, Xin Zheng, Kangqi Zhang, Jiqiong Zhou, Zhouwen Ma, Feida Sun, Yan Peng, Xiao Ma, Jeyakumar Paramsothy, Ran Xue, Lin Liu   +14 more
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Calcium content and high calcium adaptation of plants in karst areas of southwestern Hunan, China [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
Rocky desertification is a major ecological problem of land degradation in karst areas. In these areas, the high soil calcium (Ca) content has become an important environmental factor that can affect the restoration of vegetation.
X. Wei, X. Deng, X. Deng, W. Xiang, W. Xiang, P. Lei, P. Lei, S. Ouyang, S. Ouyang, H. Wen, L. Chen, L. Chen   +11 more
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Dynamics of Vegetation and Soil in Long‐Term Artificial Sand Control Projects in the Ulan Buh Desert

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
This study investigates the long‐term synergistic evolution of vegetation and soil in artificial sand‐control projects (using straw checkerboard barriers) in China's Ulan Buh Desert. By analyzing areas with different restoration times (0–15 years), it identifies ~10 years as a critical inflection point where plant communities mature into stable, near ...
Benmo Li, Dong Wang, Yujie Xue, Runze Liu, Jingwen Li   +4 more
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Meteorological to Agricultural Drought Transitions Compounded by Heat Waves in Historical and Future Climates

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Meteorological droughts (persistent precipitation deficits) often, but not always, transition into agricultural droughts (persistent soil moisture deficits). The intensity of agricultural drought, however, can vary for a given precipitation deficit due to a number of catalyzing co‐factors beyond precipitation such as atmospheric evaporative ...
Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Meriah J. Gannon, Dara Entekhabi   +2 more
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rocky Desertification in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China

Sustainability
Rocky desertification in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area, the core water source of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, constitutes a significant ecological threat, primarily driven by historical deforestation and agricultural expansion.
Shiwen Wu, Chenglong Li, Hongliang Wang, Zhiqi Wang, Haodong Ji, Zhanping Zhang, Yechen Zhang, Wenhui Hao, Yu Song   +8 more
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