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A moral economy of water: charity wells in Egypt’s Nile Delta

By Esteve | 22/02/201726/06/2019 by Esteve

I’m very proud to use the blog to disseminate an article that was successfully led by former ICTA MSc student Hagar El Didi, now based at IFPRI-Cairo. Through a case study in Egypt’s Nile Delta, we investigated the role that charity wells play in irrigation and drinking water access relations, placing emphasis on the ways in which these wells interact with other local and national institutions. We demonstrate that charity wells alter property rights relations, extending entitlements to…

Fire is REDD+

By Esteve | 12/06/201612/11/2016 by Esteve

This article is one of the latest scientific outputs of an action-research project in south-eastern Tanzania focused on combining participatory forest management with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) incentives. The project introduces early burning practices to reduce the number and (heat) intensity of wild and late-season fires, to develop robust carbon accounting methods. Our analysis considers the causes of forest fires, and local people’s knowledge of the early burning process and its impacts…

Justice and conservation: the need to incorporate recognition

By Esteve | 12/04/201612/11/2016 by Esteve

In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask in this article how the conservation sector should be incorporating concerns for social justice. We focus in particular on ‘recognition’, because it is the least well understood aspect of environmental justice, and yet highly relevant to conservation because of its concern with respect for local knowledge and cultures. In order to explore the meaning of recognition in the conservation context, we…