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12 December 2022
Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice
Published by: IDS
Despite a growing focus on the justice dimensions of climate and environmental change, this issue of the IDS Bulletin argues that there...
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Journal Article
1 August 2020
Resource Warfare, Pacification and the Spectacle of ‘Green’ Development: Logics of Violence in Engineering Extraction in Southern Madagascar
Published by: Elsevier
Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in...
Journal Article
1 May 2019
The New Politics and Geographies of Scarcity
Published by: Elsevier
Scarcity is a dangerous idea and has long been a totalising discourse in resource politics and mainstream economics. A large body of...
Report
16 November 2016
Violence and Violence Reduction Efforts in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Ivory Coast: Insights and Lessons towards Achieving SDG 16
Published by: IDS
This report develops evidence-based insights into contextual dimensions of violence and practices on reducing violence, from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of governance.
Report
15 March 2016
Black Sands, Green Plans and Conflict: Structural Adjustment, Sectoral Reforms and the Mining–Conservation–Conflict Nexus in Southern Madagascar
Published by: IDS
This report is a policy analysis of international investments in Madagascar’s natural resources at the thematic intersection of extractive development, land reform, environmental preservation and conflict.
Report
21 September 2015
Green Development, Natural Resource Financialization and Emerging Conflict in Southern Africa with Examples from Implementation Contexts in Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa
Published by: IDS
In recent years, widespread uncertainty around global economic and environmental futures has contributed to growing advocacy for a global ‘greening’ of the economy involving the coordinated establishment of pro-environment economic policies and programmes around the world.
Brief
7 July 2015
Understanding Relationships between the Green Economy, Resource Financialization and Conflict
Published by: IDS
A key aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development approach centres on creating markets for financialized ‘natural capital’ products, particularly in resource-rich, lower-income countries. The appeal of this comes from a set of policy promises termed the ‘triple-win’: achieving environmental sustainability, socially inclusive economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Brief
24 February 2015
Ebola and Lessons for Development
Published by: IDS
As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground.
Brief
24 February 2015
Ebola, Politics and Ecology: Beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative’
Published by: IDS
The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre.
Journal Article
1 January 2014
Weathering the ‘long wounded year’: Livelihoods, nutrition, and changing political ecologies in the Mikea Forest region, Madagascar
Published by: Journal of Political Ecology
Researchers studying health, adaptability, and political economy have long been concerned with human health as a reflection of interpenetrating sociopolitical, economic, ecological, and bodily processes. However, understanding the production of health in the context of changing political ecologies remains underexplored and undertheorized.