Tracing territorial-illicit relations: Pathways of influence and prospects for governance

Blume, Laura Ross; Sauls, Laura Aileen; Knight, Christopher A.C.J.

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102690

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“…Ford Foundation funding can also seed larger initiatives, due to its reputational benefit and capacity‐building focus, as well as reduce the risk to communities of doing the necessary but sometimes dangerous work of pursuing territorial governance in contentious spaces, or to be more ambitious because they have generalized support. While these approaches have led to some major, globally recognized successes—interviewees often cite the case of the renewal of the forest concessions for the Association of Forest Communities of Petén in Guatemala (United Nations Development Programme, 2012)—there are also cases where significant investment may not be sufficient to overcome structural and political challenges—such in the now‐titled Miskitu territories of Honduras (Blume et al, 2022; Galeana, 2020). The longer‐term view and commitment to politically‐informed accompaniment distinguishes Ford Foundation support, according to grantees.…”

Section: Ford Foundation: Trends and Shiftsmentioning

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Redefining rights‐based conservation through philanthropy: The Ford Foundation in Mesoamerica

Sauls,

López Illescas

2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The role of the philanthropic sector in climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation is gaining renewed attention as new pledges to dramatically increase funding for nature-based climate solutions mount. Despite their significant role in the conservation space, philanthropies are relatively understudied as donors; in particular, the lack of accountability and transparency in philanthropy have made them a "black box", including in conservation-related efforts. Based on extensive document and database review alongside interviews with philanthropic grant-makers and recipients, this article seeks to analyze the conservation-related efforts of the Ford Foundationa long-standing philanthropic actor in international sustainable development. Specifically, we examine how Ford Foundation practices in Mexico and Central America have shifted since 2000 to center Indigenous Peoples and local communities, both in terms of thematic focus and strategic approach. In explaining how Ford Foundation grant-makers themselves understand the process of change, and their lessons from this process, this article highlights the ongoing challenges to and possible methods for centering inclusive, territorial approaches to produce more effective, lasting conservation outcomes.

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Redefining rights‐based conservation through philanthropy: The Ford Foundation in Mesoamerica

Sauls,

López Illescas

2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…More and more, the literature digging deeper into these general syndemic patterns of human pyric activities and social evolution in modern times points its finger at bad environmental governance moderators of the above primary relationships. For instance, the ambiguous legislative role of politicians or administration officers, corruption, the inadequate justice system, organized crime, and so on are pointed out in the literature [31][32][33][34].…”

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Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Assessment and Modernization Transitions: The Case of Greece

Troumbis

Gagani

Sideropoulos

2023

Fire

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Wildfire is the primary cause of deforestation in fire-prone environments, disrupting the forest transition process generated by multiple social-ecological drivers of modernization. Given the positive feedback between climate change and wildfire-driven deforestation, it seems necessary to abstract the primary- or micro-characteristics of wildfire event(s) and focus on the general behavior of the phenomenon across time and space. This paper intends to couple wildfire self-organizing criticality theory (SOC) and modernization statistics to propose a verisimilar explanation of the phenomenon’s evolution in the past decades and a prediction of its trends in Greece. We use power law distributions of the fire frequency–magnitude relationship to estimate the basic SOC parameters and the Weibull reliability method to calculate large-size wildfires’ conditional probability as a time function. We use automatic linear modeling to search for the most accurate relationship between wildfire metrics and the best subset of modernization predictors. The discussion concentrates on reframing the political debate on fire prevention vs. suppression, its flaws and limitations, and the core challenges for adopting more efficient wildfire management policies in Greece.

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Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction

Margulies

Massé

Gilmer

2023

Political Geography

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Tracing territorial-illicit relations: Pathways of influence and prospects for governance

Cited by 5 publications

References 70 publications

Redefining rights‐based conservation through philanthropy: The Ford Foundation in Mesoamerica

Redefining rights‐based conservation through philanthropy: The Ford Foundation in Mesoamerica

Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Assessment and Modernization Transitions: The Case of Greece

Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction

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