Throughout the developing world, households are diversifying their livelihood activities to
manage risk and improve their lives. Many studies have focused on the material causes and …

Despite the extensive scholarship on women's empowerment and gender equality in the
Global South, few studies have examined how changing livelihoods create new challenges …

Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women
throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and …

Throughout the developing world, mobile phones are spreading rapidly into rural areas
where subsistence livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and human–wildlife conflict (HWC) …

The establishment of national parks are an important and often‐used tool to protect
biodiversity. However, when considering freshwater ecosystems, many of these areas in …

The relationships that local communities have with protected areas are important for the
success of these areas. However, it is difficult to capture park–people relationships at spatial …

Throughout developing countries, major world religions are spreading into areas important
for biodiversity conservation, and little is know about the potential effects of this expansion …

In the last century, mobile pastoralists around the world have transitioned to more sedentary
lifestyles. Traditionally mobile people can be both pushed to settle by environmental or …

This chapter explores the theoretical perspectives employed in this study on the governance
of private game farming. Theoretical concepts are important to ground the empirical study in …

In China, one percent of the richest population holds more than one-third of the wealth, while
the poorest 25% shares no more than two percent of the total. The country's rapid economic …