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1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change  PART 1: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES  2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands  3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands  PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER  4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and mining in Africa  5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate  6. The ‘open cut’ in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing  7. Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to disenchantments  8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation: Conserving drylands with or without people  PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION, AND LIVELIHOODS  9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism  10. Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy  11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies  PART 4: RESPONSES AND POTENTIALS  12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands  13. Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in drylands