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A moral economy of water: charity wells in Egypt’s Nile Delta
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 […]
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Fire is REDD+
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. […]
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Justice and conservation: the need to incorporate recognition
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 […]