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