Towards a Theory of Claim Making: Bridging Access and Property Theory

García, Angela Kronenburg; Dijk, J.W.M. van

doi:10.1080/08941920.2018.1559381

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“…Examples of the former are state laws concerning tenure and mineral rights. Those for the latter are rules or claims on common property (Garrett et al, 2013;Kronenburg García & van Dijk, 2020;Osabuohien, 2014), gender distinctions applied to input access (Radel et al, 2012), or expectations about loaning or renting land to extended family members (Laney & Turner, 2015). The absence of rules and/or attempts to circumnavigate rules through clandestine activities or during times of violent conflict also fall within the institution element (e.g., Baumann & Kuemmerle, 2016;Chiodelli & Moroni, 2015;Sesnie et al, 2017), although land-use theory and models have been slow to incorporate explanations of such processes (Tellman et al, 2020).…”

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Framing the search for a theory of land use

Turner

Meyfroidt

Kuemmerle

et al. 2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved understanding and theorization of land and its change as a social-ecological system (SES). The absence of a general land-use theory, anchored in the social subsystem but with explicit links to the environmental subsystem, hampers this effort. Drawing on land-use explanations, meta-analyses, and associated frameworks, we advance a broad framework structure of eight elements-aggregations of explanatory variableswith links to the biophysical subsystem, for systematic comparisons of extant explanations. Tests and models can be employed to identify which set of variables and their configurations provide robust explanations of across land uses, identifying the potential for theory development. The framework and its application are applicable to both top-down and bottom-up explanatory approaches employed in the social sciences. Links to the environmental subsystem invite future exploration of SES explanations that reach across the different dimensions of global change and sustainability science.

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Section: Proposed Frameworkmentioning

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Framing the search for a theory of land use

Turner

Meyfroidt

Kuemmerle

et al. 2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…By focusing only on income streams and cash flows, this approach does not capture broader dimensions of livelihoods. Livelihood frameworks recognize the activities, capabilities, and assets or capitals (financial, human, natural, physical, and social) required to make a living (Sen 1984, Chambers and Conway 1992, Scoones 1998, De Haan and Zoomers 2005, including claims and access to those resources (Ribot andPeluso 2003, Kronenburg García andvan Dijk 2019). Various studies have documented the processes of dispossession that restrict farmers' access to these livelihood assets, for instance through "land grabs" (e.g., Hall et al 2011, Kenney-Lazar 2012.…”

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Assessing livelihood vulnerability using a Bayesian network: a case study in northern Laos

Junquera¹,

Grêt‐Regamey²

2020

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Agricultural transitions from subsistence to export-oriented production make households more reliant on volatile agricultural commodity markets and can increase households' exposure to crop price and yield shocks. At the same time, subsistence farming is also highly vulnerable to crop failures. In this work, we define household livelihood vulnerability as the probability of falling under an income threshold. We propose the use of a Bayesian network (BN) to calculate the income distribution based on household and community-level variables. BNs reflect relationships of dependence between variables and represent all variables as probability distributions, which allows for the explicit propagation of variability and uncertainty between variables. We focus on two agricultural frontier case study areas (CSAs) in northern Lao PDR that are at different stages in the transition from subsistence to export-oriented agriculture. Because agricultural production is the main livelihood activity in both CSAs, we develop a BN that calculates the probability distribution of net household agricultural production income. BN structure and parameterization are based on data collected in 110 household surveys across both CSAs, as well as interviews with villagers, government officials, and private sector actors. We analyze the effect of crop price and yield variability, land-use portfolio, and land holdings, on the probability of having a negative net agricultural income, which reflects a household's ability to meet its food consumption needs through cash crop sales. Results show that agricultural income is highly sensitive to rubber plantation area, rubber yield, and rubber price given the very large income potential of the crop. Households with larger agricultural areas have a lower probability of falling under an agricultural income threshold regardless of their diversification choices. Households that own more high-value cash crops are more buffered against rice yield shocks despite having higher agricultural income variability. However, low-income households are better off if they maintain a minimum level of rice sufficiency in combination with high-value cash crop production. Diversifying upland cash crops by increasing the share of cardamom (a lowvalue but low-volatility crop) at the expense of rubber (a highly lucrative crop with high price volatility) does not have a sizable beneficial impact, because returns from cardamom are significantly lower than for rubber. We show that BNs can be useful tools for the design and evaluation of rural development policies.

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“…3 On the other hand, frontiers generate new sets of opportunities and simultaneously spaces for negotiations for a range of social actors to access resources they previously were denied off or were only recently discovered. The socio-political struggles for Independence in Namibia in 1990, or for a new democratic dispensation in neighbouring South Africa from 1994 onwards, created new frontier moments that gave way to a political order that initiated new institutional orderings that are based on (1) different property regimes (Von Benda-Beckmann, Von Benda-Beckmann, & Wiber, 2006b), (2) new forms of authority (Sikor & Lund, 2009), and (3) the connected struggles for legitimacy over the ability to define proper uses and users (Kronenburg García & van Dijk, 2019;Long, 2001). In the spirit of Kopytoff (1987) the frontier creates spaces of socio-and political negotiations.…”

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Mining on communal land as a new frontier –a case study of the Kunene Region, Namibia

Odendaal

Hebinck

2019

Journal of Land Use Science

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This paper is about mining under communal ownership which makes this kind of mining a new mining frontier. The newness of the frontier is that it has introduced a series of institutional complexities that is uncommon to artisanal and large-scale mining. Mining companies have to negotiate deals with communities and their leaders to be able to prospect for mineral resources. We also argue that the state's environmental legislation is poorly harmonised with the prevalent conditions in communal areas where mining is gaining greater importance. Legislation remains silent on the rights of those living on communal land. These rights remain in a state of confusion with often negative effects on the local communities who are exposed to a number of duplicating development programmes and legislative structures. The aim of this paper is to explore the dynamics communal mining in the Kunene Region in north-western Namibia. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Towards a Theory of Claim Making: Bridging Access and Property Theory

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

Framing the search for a theory of land use

Framing the search for a theory of land use

Assessing livelihood vulnerability using a Bayesian network: a case study in northern Laos

Mining on communal land as a new frontier –a case study of the Kunene Region, Namibia

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