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Research featured in newspaper article "ELCs don’t reduce poverty: paper", written by Jack Davies
No full textEconomic land concessions (ELCs) are supposed to be transforming Cambodian agriculture into a heavyweight industry and raising the living standards of millions of rural Cambodians, according to government policy documents. But, in an academic paper published last month, Arnim Scheidel, a PhD in ecological economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, argued that poverty reduction is merely a cover for what he terms “land capture”
Research featured in newspaper article "ELCs don’t reduce poverty: paper", written by Jack Davies
No full textEconomic land concessions (ELCs) are supposed to be transforming Cambodian agriculture into a heavyweight industry and raising the living standards of millions of rural Cambodians, according to government policy documents. But, in an academic paper published last month, Arnim Scheidel, a PhD in ecological economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, argued that poverty reduction is merely a cover for what he terms “land capture”
Correction to: Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework
No full textThe article Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework, written by Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria and Joan Martínez‑Alier was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 13 December 2017 without open access.
With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the
copyright of the article changed on 13 December 2017 to ©
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Ernährung, internationaler Handel und Landnutzung : die soziale Ökologie des Nahrungsmittelsystems ; Fallstudie Olivenöl
No full textArnim ScheidelZsfassug in engl. SpracheKlagenfurt, Alpen-Adria-Univ., Master-Arb., 200
Research featured in newspaper article "Seeds of destruction?", written by Shaun Turton and Phak Seangly
No full textIn a paper published this month, Scheidel and Cambodia-based anthropologist Courtney Work argue the project fits into a trend in which green initiatives of questionable environmental and social impact are established in developing countries in the name of countering climate change
Research featured in newspaper article "Seeds of destruction?", written by Shaun Turton and Phak Seangly
No full textIn a paper published this month, Scheidel and Cambodia-based anthropologist Courtney Work argue the project fits into a trend in which green initiatives of questionable environmental and social impact are established in developing countries in the name of countering climate change
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Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today: An Overview
No full textAn overview essays of the work of Elizabeth von Arnim -- a recently reclaimed author
The felicitous space of Elizabeth von Arnim.
No full textThis thesis focuses on an ensemble of the writings of Elizabeth von
Arnim which, when examined intratextually as well as intertextually, reveals
an interanimation of her life with her text: this includes her life as lived; her
life as imagined and her life as written. The thesis shows how these
distinctions collapse in her writing.
The literary theoretical concept of "the author as dead" is therefore
limited, in this case, within the context of the interanimation and the
perceived trajectory of self definition that it forms out of Elizabeth von
Arnim's writing. The importance of Elizabeth von Arnim as Author will be
argued as having significant implications towards her life long quest for
felicity and, more specifically, female-centred, felicitous space.
The interanimation of the three distinctions involving her life and text is
explored within the context of Elizabeth von Arnim's major thematic
concern: that of female-centred space. The thesis compares and contrasts the
ability of Elizabeth von Arnim, together with her female protagonists, to
create, protect, and maintain female-centred space.
While Elizabeth von Arnim is popularly known as a romance writer, this
thesis explores and reveals her work to be a deliberate and consistent ironic
subversion of patriarchal institutions and their ideologies, including the
social construction and ideology of romantic love that was central and
embedded in Elizabeth von Arnim' s culture and affirmed in the romance
genre
Carbon stock indicators: reductionist assessments and contentious policies on land use
No full textIndicators of carbon storage in forests and other land uses have gained much prominence to evaluate and endorse land-based climate change mitigation policies. The outcomes of such assessments can have direct livelihood implications for dwellers living at the forest–agriculture frontier, such as shifting cultivators or subsistence farmers. This contribution critically discusses the methodological relevance of carbon stock indicators to assess long-term emission dynamics of land uses, and furthermore addresses the ‘politics of measurement’ that can be involved in policy practice. From a complex socio-ecological systems perspective, the paper argues that carbon stock indicators provide necessary but not sufficient information to endorse land use policies with mitigation aims. While they may indicate one-off sequestration gains through vegetation and land-use change, they cannot account for permanent hidden emissions that emerge as part of the broader agrarian transitions that accompany land-use change. Over the long term, this may render related mitigation interventions ineffective, if not counterproductive. Furthermore, carbon stock estimates for future land-use scenarios sometimes draw on biased assumptions, or are constructed within histories of discrimination, through which they may further marginalize subaltern groups such as shifting cultivators. A paradigm shift is needed that includes more integrative assessment approaches
Carbon accounts of shifting agriculture: Reductionist practices, contentious policies
No full textClimate change mitigation policies concerned with the preservation of forest carbon stocks have
increasingly fuelled conflict over access to forests with traditional shifting cultivators, who have been
blamed to be among the central causes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from deforestation. This
paper addresses the adequacy of current carbon accounting practices for shifting agriculture and
potential alternatives from a complex socio-ecological systems perspective. It is argued that from
such a broader perspective, the currently predominant focus on plot-based changes in total
ecosystem carbon stocks, such as through forest carbon accounts, is inadequate to assess systemic
climate pressures resulting from different land use systems. Such proxies represent only a single
snapshot of a comparatively small land area, which however is embedded into the larger spatial and
temporal dynamics of not only land use but also livelihood systems. Hence, currently predominant
assessment practices are too reductionist to grasp the wider system dynamics and to provide a
reliable understanding that could support policies targeting a transition away from shifting
agriculture. They further run danger of replacing democratic decision-making over socioenvironmental
futures with technical discussion on how to achieve rather abstract carbon values
that lack political legitimacy on the ground. Policies based on such accounts are therefore not only
politically contentious, fuelling conflict over access to forests, but further can be ineffective and
sometimes even counterproductive for their initial objective of climate change mitigation
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