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Smart carbon–neutral development: Embracing complexity with multi-level governance and convolution 智能碳中和发展：以多层次治理和卷积迎接复杂性

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107026

Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori

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The curse of television: Evidence from nutritional outcomes in rural China 电视的诅咒：来自中国农村营养状况的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107014

Luchen Huang , Yanjun Ren , Omid Zamani , Jens-Peter Loy

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Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods 占领城市：非洲社区的公民身份和政治关系

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107010

Damilola Agbalajobi , Mohammed S. Awal , Taibat Lawanson , Jeffrey W. Paller

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“Mitti se Sona [Gold from Dirt]?”: Solar India and colonial modernity in Agropastoral Rajasthan “Mitti se Sona（泥土中的金子）？”：拉贾斯坦邦农业牧区的太阳能印度和殖民现代性

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107028

Shayan Shokrgozar , Siddharth Sareen

{"title":"“Mitti se Sona [Gold from Dirt]?”: Solar India and colonial modernity in Agropastoral Rajasthan","authors":"Shayan Shokrgozar , Siddharth Sareen","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reflecting the prioritization of techno “fixes” over the socio-political dimension leading to anthropogenic climate change, there is a global surge of interest and investments in lower-carbon energy projects. India seeks to project itself as an energy transitions frontrunner, touting the world’s fourth-largest installed capacity of lower-carbon energy. Central to India’s aspirations is a 500 GW target of installed non-fossil energy capacity by 2030, accounting for half its electricity generation. This ambitious goal contrasts starkly with negligible solar capacity at the 2010 launch of the National Solar Mission, underscoring the monumental shift powered by solar photovoltaics. Alongside the impressive strides of Solar India, in part deployed for ostensible <em>sustainability transitions</em> efforts, the imaginaries and praxes of energy futures have caused socio-ecological harms in the present, particularly concerning land access and resource control in fragile desert geographies. Drawing from rich traditions of political ecology, energy geographies, and agrarian studies, our research unravels nuanced facets of India’s energy transition, focusing on Rajasthan state as a pivotal case study based on ethnographic fieldwork. We argue that while the bleak implications of Solar India for rural agropastoral communities are not inherent to energy transitions as such, they are deeply entrenched within its current regime and manifest through <em>colonial modernity</em>, an imposed project of assimilating indigenous and agropastoral peoples towards industrial lifeways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107028"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana 加纳的政党政治活动和非法开采黄金

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107008

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai , Lars Buur , Paul Stacey

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What is driving reliance on shared sanitation in urban informal settlements? Challenges and pathways for improvement 是什么推动了城市非正式住区对共用卫生设施的依赖？挑战和改进途径

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107012

Lauren Sprouse , Sarah Lebu , Jackqueline Nguyen , Chimdi Muoghalu , Swaib Semiyaga , Musa Manga

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Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics “金本位”的裂缝：发展经济学中采矿业的欧洲中心主义

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107006

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

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Displacement Ecologies: An alternative conceptual framework for navigating how to reorient to a changing world 位移生态学：一种可供选择的概念框架，用于导航如何重新定位以适应不断变化的世界

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107030

Michaela Korodimou , Thomas F. Thornton

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Legislative decentralization and regulatory dilution: Evidence from air pollution control in China 立法分权与监管淡化：来自中国大气污染治理的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107002

Cong Zhang , Ran Tao , Fubing Su

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Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness 所有的一切，所有的地方，同时发生？捐助国官僚们在发展效率的四个维度上挣扎

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World Development Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107017

Daniel E. Esser , Heiner Janus

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