Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Maguire-Rajpaul |
| SIGNATURE | MAGUIRE-RAJPAUL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7896-0077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences
We introduce landscape‐as‐governance (LAG) as a dynamic landscape property and theoretical approach that uses people's embodied sensing to explain their governance preferences. LAG incorporates enactive‐cognitive and polycentric governance approaches to reveal how sensing and sensemaking influence decision‐making at personal and landscape scales. LAG's novelty lies in showing how personal landscape sensing intertwines social and ecological factor…
Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa
Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry. Agroforestry is a climate adaptation strategy that supports both nature and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, yet its adoption r…
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas
Protected areas (PAs) are the foremost policy tool for biodiversity conservation internationally. In order for PAs to deliver desired conservation outcomes effectively, equitably, and for the long-term, they require a high level of support from local communities. A mosaic of factors have been proposed aiming to explain the level of support for PAs focusing mainly on governance indicators, perceived social impacts and social attributes, such as pe…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
Coffee certification in Brazil: Compliance with social standards and its implications for social equity
This paper addresses the relationship between compliance with social performance criteria (the social outcomes that must be achieved for certification) and procedural (management) criteria and this relationship’s significance for social equity at both farm and wider landscape levels. We consider social performance compliance to be pertinent to farm-level equity, and the relative compliance of small versus large farms to be pertinent to landscape-…
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Coffee certification in Brazil: Compliance with social standards and its implications for social equity
This paper addresses the relationship between compliance with social performance criteria (the social outcomes that must be achieved for certification) and procedural (management) criteria and this relationship’s significance for social equity at both farm and wider landscape levels. We consider social performance compliance to be pertinent to farm-level equity, and the relative compliance of small versus large farms to be pertinent to landscape-…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas
Protected areas (PAs) are the foremost policy tool for biodiversity conservation internationally. In order for PAs to deliver desired conservation outcomes effectively, equitably, and for the long-term, they require a high level of support from local communities. A mosaic of factors have been proposed aiming to explain the level of support for PAs focusing mainly on governance indicators, perceived social impacts and social attributes, such as pe…
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences
We introduce landscape‐as‐governance (LAG) as a dynamic landscape property and theoretical approach that uses people's embodied sensing to explain their governance preferences. LAG incorporates enactive‐cognitive and polycentric governance approaches to reveal how sensing and sensemaking influence decision‐making at personal and landscape scales. LAG's novelty lies in showing how personal landscape sensing intertwines social and ecological factor…
Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa
Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry. Agroforestry is a climate adaptation strategy that supports both nature and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, yet its adoption r…
Political science (6 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 works) · Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)