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Social Capital, Collective Action and Group Formation: Developmental Trajectories in Post-socialist Mongolia by Upton, Caroline

“…Group formation, social capital and collective action have been the focus of much recent attention amongst donors and policy makers. Optimistic scenarios…”
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Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests by Locatelli, Tommaso, Binet, Thomas, Kairo, James Gitundu, King, Lesley, Madden, Sarah, Patenaude, Genevieve, Upton, Caroline, Huxham, Mark

“…In this review paper, we aim to describe the potential for, and the key challenges to, applying PES projects to mangroves. By adopting a “carbocentric…”
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Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia by Thornton, Sara A., Setiana, Erna, Yoyo, Kris, Dudin, Yulintine, Harrison, Mark E., Page, Susan E., Upton, Caroline

“…•We link livelihoods and biocultural approaches to conservation.•This is done to counter the ecosystem service approach and nature-culture…”
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Environmental governance on the street: Towards an expanded research agenda on street-level bureaucrats by Holstead, Kirsty, Funder, Mikkel, Upton, Caroline

“…Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who…”
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Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions by Harrison, Mark E., Ottay, Juliarta Bramansa, D’Arcy, Laura J., Cheyne, Susan M., Anggodo, Belcher, Claire, Cole, Lydia, Dohong, Alue, Ermiasi, Yunsiska, Feldpausch, Ted, Gallego‐Sala, Angela, Gunawan, Adib, Höing, Andrea, Husson, Simon J., Kulu, Ici P., Soebagio, Siti Maimunah, Mang, Shari, Mercado, Lina, Morrogh‐Bernard, Helen C., Page, Susan E., Priyanto, Rudy, Ripoll Capilla, Bernat, Rowland, Lucy, Santos, Eduarda M., Schreer, Viola, Sudyana, I. Nyoman, Taman, Supardi Bin Bakeri, Thornton, Sara A., Upton, Caroline, Wich, Serge A., Veen, F. J. Frank, McPherson, Jana

“…Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate and socio‐economic benefits from the local to the global scale. However, these ecosystems…”
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Global land governance: from territory to flow? by Sikor, Thomas, Auld, Graeme, Bebbington, Anthony J, Benjaminsen, Tor A, Gentry, Bradford S, Hunsberger, Carol, Izac, Anne-Marie, Margulis, Matias E, Plieninger, Tobias, Schroeder, Heike, Upton, Caroline

“…•Global governance refers to rules at all levels having transnational repercussions.•Changes in global governance have facilitated and responded to land…”
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Near Real-Time Change Detection System Using Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning: A Test for Mexican and Colombian Forests by Pacheco-Pascagaza, Ana María, Gou, Yaqing, Louis, Valentin, Roberts, John F., Rodríguez-Veiga, Pedro, da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna, Espírito-Santo, Fernando D. B., Robb, Ciaran, Upton, Caroline, Galindo, Gustavo, Cabrera, Edersson, Pachón Cendales, Indira Paola, Castillo Santiago, Miguel Angel, Carrillo Negrete, Oswaldo, Meneses, Carmen, Iñiguez, Marco, Balzter, Heiko

“…The commitment by over 100 governments covering over 90% of the world’s forests at the COP26 in Glasgow to end deforestation by 2030 requires more effective…”
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Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China by Upton, Caroline

“…[...]this chapter provides a primarily technical analysis of carbon sink capacities under different vegetation types and land use scenarios, with little or no…”
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Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics by Harrison, Mark E, Wijedasa, Lahiru S, Cole, Lydia E.S, Cheyne, Susan M, Choiruzzad, Shofwan Al Banna, Chua, Liana, Dargie, Greta C, Ewango, Corneille E.N, Honorio Coronado, Euridice N, Ifo, Suspense A, Imron, Muhammad Ali, Kopansky, Dianna, Lestarisa, Trilianty, O'Reilly, Patrick J, Van Offelen, Julie, Refisch, Johannes, Roucoux, Katherine, Sugardjito, Jito, Thornton, Sara A, Upton, Caroline, Page, Susan

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has caused global disruption, with the emergence of this and other pandemics having been linked to habitat encroachment and/or wildlife…”
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Conserving Natures? Co‐producing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rangelands by Upton, Caroline

“…ABSTRACT Despite well‐founded concerns over the proliferation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, critical geographers have begun to challenge…”
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Performative politics of REDD+ experts: Siloed discourses and a missed opportunity by Kono, Aki, Upton, Caroline

“…This paper examines the role of experts in implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiatives at the national level…”
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The new politics of pastoralism: Identity, justice and global activism by Upton, Caroline

“…•Focuses on the emergent ‘global pastoralists’ movement’ and pastoral activism.•Examines multi-dimensional, multi-scalar aspects of environmental justice…”
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“Custom” and Contestation: Land Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia by Upton, Caroline

“…Current state and development-led land reform agendas encompass formal recognition of customary rights to an historically unprecedented degree. Through…”
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Adaptive capacity and institutional evolution in contemporary pastoral societies by Upton, Caroline

“…This paper draws on longitudinal datasets from Mongolia’s Gobi region to analyse the role of endogenous and donor-initiated institutions in shaping…”
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Managing Mongolia's Commons: Land Reforms, Social Contexts, and Institutional Change by Upton, Caroline

“…Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, postsocialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of…”
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Holding the Future Together: Towards a Theorisation of the Spaces and Times of Transition by Brown, Gavin, Kraftl, Peter, Pickerill, Jenny, Upton, Caroline

“…Social scientists often use the notion of ‘transition’ to denote diverse trajectories of change in different types of bodies: from individuals, to communities,…”
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Communities, Culture and Commodification: Mongolia's New Resource Politics by Upton, Caroline

“…Mongolia's new resource politics, central to the country's geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in…”
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Communities, Culture and Commodification by Upton, Caroline

“…Mongolia's new resource politics, central to the country's geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in…”
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Living off the land: Nature and nomadism in Mongolia by Upton, Caroline

“…The demise of the Soviet Union precipitated profound changes in formerly collectivised rural spaces across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. However, it is only…”
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From Shiny Shoes to Muddy Reality: Understanding How Meso-State Actors Negotiate the Implementation Gap in Participatory Forest Management by Kairu, Anne, Upton, Caroline, Huxham, Mark, Kotut, Kiplagat, Mbeche, Robert, Kairo, James

“…Recent research on participatory forest management (PFM) in the global south has highlighted the existence of a widespread "implementation gap" between the…”
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