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This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled the grabbing process. It also looks at how these institutions and CSR programs are used as development strategies of states and companies to legitimate their investments. This Special Issue includes case studies from Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Ecuador analysing how these strategies are embedded into neo-liberal ideologies of economic development. We propose looking at James Ferguson’s notion of the Anti-Politics Machine (1990) that served to uncover the hidden political basis of state-driven development strategies. We think it is of interest to test the approach for analysing development discourses and CSR-policies in agrarian investments. We argue based on a New Institutional Political Ecology (NIPE) approach that these legitimize the institutional change from common to state and private property of land and land related common pool resources which is the basis of commons grabbing that also grabbed the capacity for resilience of local people.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- pastoral resilience --- co-management concept --- decentralization --- holistic management --- water-shed management plan --- commercialization of herding --- Common Pool Resources (CPRs) --- qualitative --- agro-industrial food system --- actors --- formal and informal rules and regulations --- export horticulture --- common pool resources --- land --- water --- Laikipia County --- land grabbing --- resilience --- commons --- land concessions --- communal land titling --- Southeast Asia --- forest land governance --- Mau Forest --- Ogiek --- institutions --- Community Land Act and customary law --- large-scale land acquisitions --- green energy --- corporate social responsibility --- food systems --- agroecosystems and agroecosystem service --- resilience and commons grabbing --- gender --- sustainable energy --- development policy --- common-pool resources --- common property --- land tenure transformations --- resilience, social anthropology --- conservationism --- identity --- commons grabbing --- protected areas --- institution shopping --- institutional change --- Ecuador --- large scale land acquisitions --- social anthropology --- n/a

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This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled the grabbing process. It also looks at how these institutions and CSR programs are used as development strategies of states and companies to legitimate their investments. This Special Issue includes case studies from Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Ecuador analysing how these strategies are embedded into neo-liberal ideologies of economic development. We propose looking at James Ferguson’s notion of the Anti-Politics Machine (1990) that served to uncover the hidden political basis of state-driven development strategies. We think it is of interest to test the approach for analysing development discourses and CSR-policies in agrarian investments. We argue based on a New Institutional Political Ecology (NIPE) approach that these legitimize the institutional change from common to state and private property of land and land related common pool resources which is the basis of commons grabbing that also grabbed the capacity for resilience of local people.

pastoral resilience --- co-management concept --- decentralization --- holistic management --- water-shed management plan --- commercialization of herding --- Common Pool Resources (CPRs) --- qualitative --- agro-industrial food system --- actors --- formal and informal rules and regulations --- export horticulture --- common pool resources --- land --- water --- Laikipia County --- land grabbing --- resilience --- commons --- land concessions --- communal land titling --- Southeast Asia --- forest land governance --- Mau Forest --- Ogiek --- institutions --- Community Land Act and customary law --- large-scale land acquisitions --- green energy --- corporate social responsibility --- food systems --- agroecosystems and agroecosystem service --- resilience and commons grabbing --- gender --- sustainable energy --- development policy --- common-pool resources --- common property --- land tenure transformations --- resilience, social anthropology --- conservationism --- identity --- commons grabbing --- protected areas --- institution shopping --- institutional change --- Ecuador --- large scale land acquisitions --- social anthropology --- n/a

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.

Research & information: general --- digital elevation model --- maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) classification --- runoff quality --- social, economic and environmental (SEE) factor --- Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) --- urbanization --- vegetation density --- stormwater management --- social factors --- green stormwater infrastructure --- society --- risk analysis --- water-related crises --- resilience --- security --- floods --- drinking water --- crisis planning --- landslides --- logistic regression --- slope gradient --- land use --- soil --- Coonoor --- behavior --- trust --- risk --- tap water --- salience --- common pool resources --- integrated water management --- water governance --- water resilience --- socio-hydrology --- irrigation efficiency --- surface water-groundwater interactions --- sustainability --- knowledge coproduction --- integrated local environmental knowledge --- education and training --- community-based water development --- Black Sea --- coastal tourism --- regional climate change --- warming --- wind --- waves --- sea level rise --- upwelling --- heavy rain --- river plume --- algal bloom --- introduced species --- n/a

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.

digital elevation model --- maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) classification --- runoff quality --- social, economic and environmental (SEE) factor --- Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) --- urbanization --- vegetation density --- stormwater management --- social factors --- green stormwater infrastructure --- society --- risk analysis --- water-related crises --- resilience --- security --- floods --- drinking water --- crisis planning --- landslides --- logistic regression --- slope gradient --- land use --- soil --- Coonoor --- behavior --- trust --- risk --- tap water --- salience --- common pool resources --- integrated water management --- water governance --- water resilience --- socio-hydrology --- irrigation efficiency --- surface water-groundwater interactions --- sustainability --- knowledge coproduction --- integrated local environmental knowledge --- education and training --- community-based water development --- Black Sea --- coastal tourism --- regional climate change --- warming --- wind --- waves --- sea level rise --- upwelling --- heavy rain --- river plume --- algal bloom --- introduced species --- n/a