With economic progress, it was expected that smallholders would fade into history. This has
been the experience in much of the global North and it was expected to occur as …

Ecological economics is largely about the 'substantive'(in 'kind') study of the economy, as
opposed to a purely 'formal'economic analysis (in 'money'). Following Kapp, Polanyi and …

Understanding the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and the agents of such
drivers is important for introducing appropriate policy interventions. Here, we identified …

The success of conservation interventions often depends on the multifaceted and sometimes
competing interests and motivations that lead local people to sustainably manage natural …

Cooperatives are increasingly advocated as a means to improve incomes, livelihoods and
the sustainability of smallholder farmers. This study analyzes the impact of commercial …

Participatory modeling is a potentially high‐impact approach for catalyzing fundamental
sustainability transformations. We test if participation in a group system dynamics modeling …

Globally, land use competition in mining areas is coming under increased scrutiny, leading
to critical debates about inter-related physical and political “spaces” for environmental …

Exploiting the labour of other people has historically been one of the main strategies to
tackle the biophysical tension that always exists between the satisfaction of human needs …

Forest conversion and conservation in rural settings are linked to both social and
biophysical drivers. However, the joint analysis of these drivers presents methodological …

This paper explores the ecological economics of small-scale cooperative banking (SSCB)
through reference to the empirical case of a rice-farming village in Kampot, Cambodia. It …