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2005. Joining the dots: The report of the Tiger Task Force. Tiger Task Force - Government of India. ACSC Keywords: conservation, policy, India, institution
Agrawal, Arun. 2005. Environmentality: Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India. Current Anthropology 46:161-351. ACSC Keywords: conservation, community, governmentality, environmentality, environment, local, India, Chipko, forestry
Armitage, Derek and Johnson, Derek. 2006. Can resilience be reconciled with globalization and the increasingly complex conditions of resource degradation in Asian coastal regions?. Ecology and Society 11. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, India, globalization, resilience, indonesia, complexity, social-ecological system, coastal management
Axelrod, Paul and Fuerch, Michelle. 2006. Common ground: Risk, scarcity, and shared resources in Goan agriculture. Human Ecology 34:79-98. Author's Keywords: India, agriculture, cultural ecology, communal resources
Balée, William L. and Gely, Anne. 1989. Managed forest succession in Amazonia: The Ka'apor case. Advances in Economic Botany 7:129-158. Author's Keywords: forest management, Ka'apor Indians, settlement evolution, vegetational zones ACSC Keywords: forests, amazonia, South America, botany, Brazil, ICRAF seminar agroforestry
Basnet, Khadga. 2003. "Transboundary biodiversity conservation initiative: An example from Nepal," in Transboundary protected areas: The viability of regional conservation strategies. Edited by Goodale, U. M. and et. al., pp. 205-226. New York: Food Products Press. ACSC Keywords: hunting, poaching, biodiversity, India, transboundary protected areas, Nepal, China
Batliwala, Srilatha. 2007. Taking the power out of empowerment: An experiential account. Development in Practice 17:557-565. Author's Keywords: rights, Southeast Asia, aid, Gender and Diversity ACSC Keywords: India, social movements, SELF-efficacy, Institutional ethnography, WOMEN in development, JARGON (Terminology), TERMS & phrases, MICROFINANCE, LEXICON (Linguistics)
Baviskar, Amita. 2000. "Claims to knowledge, claims to control: Environmental conflict in the Great Himalaya National Park, India," in Indigenous environmental and its transformations: Critical anthropological perspectives. Edited by R.F. Ellen. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. ACSC Keywords: India, Great Himalayan National Park
Beckerman, S. and Valentine, P. 1996. On native American conservation and the tragedy of the commons. Current Anthropology 37:659-661. ACSC Keywords: common property, management, conservation, Native American, American Indian
Brysk, Alison. 1994. "Acting GloballyActing globally: Indian rights and international politics in Latin America: Indian Rights and International Politics in Latin America," in Indigenous peoples and democracy in Latin America. Edited by Van Cott, Donna Lee and Inter-American Dialogue (Organization), , pp. x, 271. New York: St. Martin's Press in association with the Inter-American Dialogue. ACSC Keywords: indigenous rights, indigenous, Latin America, human, Indian, democracy
Campbell, MO. 2005. Sacred groves for forest conservation in Ghana's coastal savannas: Assessing ecological and social dimensions. SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF TROPICAL GEOGRAPHY 26:151-169. Author's Keywords: conservation, remnant forest, sacred grove, tree stand, woodlot, coastal savanna ACSC Keywords: history, India, landscapes, dynamics, society, transition, west africa, DISTRICT, ZONE, managment
Cernea, Michael. 1997. The risks and reconstruction model for resettling displaced populations. World Development 25:1569-1587. Author's Keywords: poverty, India, Asia, resettlement, risk, social costs ACSC Keywords: scale, development, displacement, resettlement, mobility
Chapin, M, Lamb, Z, and Threlkeld, B. 2005. Mapping indigenous lands. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY 34:619-638. Author's Keywords: Indigenous peoples, indigenous mapping, participatory GIS, mapping methodologies, cartography ACSC Keywords: Nicaragua, geomatics, indonesia, rights, participatory rural appraisal, resources, claims, kalimantan, TERRITORIES, Indian reservation
Chhatre, A. and Saberwal, V. 2005. Political Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation Biology 19:310-317. Author's Keywords: India, community participation, conservation policy, electoral politics, Himalayas, hydroelectric projects, South Asia ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, India, communities
Chhatre, Ashwini and Saberwal, Vasant. 2005. Political incentives for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 19:310-317. Author's Keywords: India, community participation, electoral politics, Himalayas, hydroelectric projects, South Asia, conservaton policy
Colchester, Marcus and MacKay, Fergus. 2004. "In Search of Middle Ground: Indigenous Peoples, Collective Representation and the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent." Draft paper for the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2004 Author's Keywords: representation, collective rights, Indigenous peoples, free prior and informed consent ACSC Keywords: common property, India, indonesia, Guyana, Venezuela
Colding, Johan and Folke, Carl. 2001. Social taboos: "Invisible" systems of local resource management and biological conservation. Ecological Applications 11:584-600. Author's Keywords: ecology, biodiversity, conservation, natural resource management, knowledge, India, science, ecosystem management, fisheries, informal institutions, resource and habitat taboos (rhts), sacred groves, social taboos, traditional societies, transactions costs, food taboos, biodiversity conservation, diet, transaction costs ACSC Keywords: scale
Conklin, Beth A. 1997. Body paint, feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and authenticity in Amazonian activism. American Ethnologist 24:711-737. ACSC Keywords: anthropology, politics, history, culture, identity, invention, society, indians, tradition, genuine
Cruikshank, Julie. 2005. "Mapping boundaries: From stories to borders," in Do glaciers listen?: Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination, pp. 213-242. Vancouver Seattle: UBC Press ;University of Washington Press. ACSC Keywords: Tlingit Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Athapascan Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Glaciers Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Ice fields Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Human ecology Saint Elias Mountains, Oral tradition Saint Elias Mountains, Saint Elias Mountains Discovery and exploration, Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Saint Elias Mountains Environmental conditions
Cruikshank, Julie. 2005. "Introduction: The stubborn particulars of voice," in Do glaciers listen?: Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination, pp. 3-20. VancouverSeattle: UBC Press ;University of Washington Press. ACSC Keywords: Tlingit Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Athapascan Indians Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Glaciers Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Ice fields Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Human ecology Saint Elias Mountains, Oral tradition Saint Elias Mountains, Saint Elias Mountains Discovery and exploration, Saint Elias Mountains Folklore, Saint Elias Mountains Environmental conditions
Cruz, Maria Concepcion J. and Davis, Shelton H. 1997. Social assessment in World Bank and GEF-funded biodiversity conservation projects: Case Studies from India, Ecuador, and Ghana. Environment Department, Social Policy and Resettlement Division, World Bank Paper No. 43. ACSC Keywords: africa, India, South America, ecuador, Ghana, World Bank, Global Environment Facility, GEF
de Castro, E. V. 1996. Images of nature and society in Amazonian ethnology. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:179-200. Author's Keywords: Brazil, ecological anthropology, amerindians, society and nature, social anthropology
de Silva, C.R. 1999. Indian ocean but not African Sea: The erasure of East African commerce from history. Journal of Black Studies 29:684-694. ACSC Keywords: East Africa, trade, Indian Ocean, African Sea, commerce, devaluation
Dey, C. 2000. "Women, forest products and protected areas: A case study of Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India," in Social Change & Conservation. Edited by Ghimire, K. B. and Pimbert, M. P., pp. 131-157. London: Earthscan. ACSC Keywords: policy, India, protected areas, gender, women
Earth Isl, Institute. 2007. Misery from mitigation. Earth Island Journal :4-5. ACSC Keywords: India, environmental degradation, global warming, dams, Indigenous peoples, United Nations, CONGRESSES & conventions, CLIMATIC changes, ENERGY conservation, ENERGY development, DEVELOPED countries
Ferguson, J. and Gupta, A. 2002. Spatializing states: Toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality. American Ethnologist 29:981-1002. ACSC Keywords: africa, governmentality, India, globalization, states, space, neoliberalism
Ferguson, J. and Gupta, A. 2002. Spatializing states: Toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality. American Ethnologist 29:981-1002. Author's Keywords: africa, governmentality, India, globalization, states, space, neoliberalism
Ferguson, J. and Gupta, A. 2002. Spatializing states: Toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality. American Ethnologist 29:981-1002. Author's Keywords: africa, governmentality, India, globalization, states, space, neoliberalism
Gadgil, M., Seshagiri Rao, P. R., Utkarsh, G., Pramod, P., Chhatre, and A. 2000. New meanings for old knowledge: The peoples biodiversity registers program. Ecological Applications 10:1307-1317. Author's Keywords: India, traditional ecological knowledge, benefit sharing, folk knowledge, CBD, conservation priorities, adaptive co-management, development aspirations, people's biodiversity registers
German, Laura A. 2003. Historical contingencies in the coevolution of environment and livelihood: Contributions to the debate on Amazonian Black Earth. Geoderma 111:307-331. Author's Keywords: amazonia, historical ecology, indian black earth (terra preta do indio), anthrosol ACSC Keywords: landscape, transformation, MODEL
Gupta, A. 1995. Blurred Boundaries - the Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State. American Ethnologist 22:375-402. ACSC Keywords: anthropology, discourse, India, production of state, fieldwork, the state, public legitimacy, public culture, corruption, irrigation, numbers, production of civil society, production of the traditional
K. Sivaramakrishnan. 2000. State Sciences and Development Histories: Encoding Local Forestry Knowledge in Bengal. Development & Change 31:61. Author's Keywords: forest management, India, FORESTS & forestry, BENGAL (India)
Kothari, Ashish, Sori, Saloni, and Singh, Neena. 1995. Conservation in India: A new direction. Economic and Political Weekly 30:2755-2766. ACSC Keywords: wildlife, conservation, India, communities, human rights
Kothari, Smitu and Pramod Parajuli. 1993. "No Nature Without Social Justice: A Plea for Cultural and Ecological Pluralism in India," in Ecology from Below. ACSC Keywords: India, culture, ecological justice
Krech III, Shepard. 2005. Reflections on conservation, sustainability, and environmentalism in indigenous North America. American Anthropologist 107:78-86. Author's Keywords: conservation, human-environment relations, American Indians ACSC Keywords: North America, Environmental protection, social movements, Indigenous peoples, ANTI-environmentalism, ORAL tradition
Krishna, Anirudh, Kristjanson, Patti, Kuan, Judith, Quilca, Gustavo, Radeny, Maren, and Sanchez-Urrelo, Alicia. 2006. Fixing the hole in the bucket: Household poverty dynamics in the Peruvian Andes. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE 37:997-1021. ACSC Keywords: africa, India, peru, Uganda, perspective, ESCAPING POVERTY, BECOMING POOR, 36 VILLAGES
Malhotra, K. C. 1993. "People, biodiversity and regenerating tropical SAL (Shorea Robusta) forests in West Bengal, India," in Tropical forests, people and food: Biocultural interactions and applications to development. Edited by Hladik, C. M., Hladik, A., Linares, O. F., Pagezy, H., Semple, A., and Hadley, M., pp. 745-752. Paris: The Parthenon Publishing Group. ACSC Keywords: ecology, forests, community, India, tropical forests, food, subsistence
McClanahan, T. R., Cinner, J., Kamukuru, A. T., Abunge, C., and Ndagala, J. 2008. Management preferences, perceived benefits and conflicts among resource users and managers in the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania. Environmental Conservation 35:340-350. Author's Keywords: attitudes, fisheries management, Kenya, Tanzania, rights, co-management, protected area, perceptions, coral reefs, economic growth, marine protected area, park management, Indian Ocean, fishery closure, gear, NIMBY (not in my back yard), socioeconomic factors, artisanal fishers
Mosse, David. 1997. The symbolic making of a common property resource: History, ecology and locality in a tank-irrigated landscape in south India. Development and Change 28:467-504. ACSC Keywords: policy, community, history, India, capital
Mosse, David. 2004. Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice. Development and Change 35:639-671. ACSC Keywords: management, policy, community, politics, India, place, indonesia, culture, power, ethnography, method, anthropology of development
Nadasdy, Paul. 2003. ""It's not really 'knowledge' at all, it's more a way of life"," in Hunters and bureaucrats: Power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon, pp. 60-113. Vancouver: UBC Press. ACSC Keywords: Indians of North America Yukon Territory Burwash Landing Government relations, Indians of North America Land tenure Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Indians of North America Hunting Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Local government Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Burwash Landing (Yukon) Social conditions, Burwash Landing (Yukon) Politics and government, Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon) Social conditions, Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon) Politics and government
Nadasdy, Paul. 2003. "The politics of TEK: Power and the integration of knowledge," in Hunters and bureaucrats : Power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon, pp. 114-146. Vancouver: UBC Press. ACSC Keywords: Indians of North America Yukon Territory Burwash Landing Government relations, Indians of North America Land tenure Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Indians of North America Hunting Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Local government Yukon Territory Burwash Landing, Burwash Landing (Yukon) Social conditions, Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon) Social conditions, Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon) Politics and government
Nino-Murcia, Anamaria. 2006. Investing in natural capital: A financial assessment of social forestry in Northern India. Journal of Environment & Development 15:317-331. Author's Keywords: India, poverty alleviation, ecosystem services, resource valuation, social forestry, avoided cost, return on investment
Norgrove, Linda and Hulme, David. 2006. Confronting conservation at Mount Elgon, Uganda. Development and Change 37:1093-1116. ACSC Keywords: politics, India, national-park, sub-saharan africa, INTERVENTIONS, Development and Change
Pierotti, Raymond and Wildcat, Daniel. 2000. Traditional ecological knowledge: The third alternative (commentary). Ecological Applications 10:1333-1340. Author's Keywords: resource management, ecology, conservation, environment, indigenous, traditional ecological knowledge, Native American, Indian, belief system
Poffenberger, Mark. 1994. "The resurgence of community forest management in Eastern India," in Natural connections: Perspectives in community-based conservation. Edited by Western, D. and Wright, R. M., pp. 53-79. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, policy, forest management, India
Randeria, Shalini. 2003. Glocalization oflaw: Environmental justice, world bank, NGOs and the cunning state in India. Current Sociology 51:305-328. ACSC Keywords: India, NGOs, environmental justice, World Bank, law, Glocalization
Randeria, Shalini. 2007. The state of globalization: Legal plurality, overlapping sovereignties and ambiguous alliances between civil society and the cunning state in India. Theory, Culture & Society 24:1-33. ACSC Keywords: India, non-governmental organizations, globalization, NGOs, civil society, the state, imperialism, neoliberalism, alliances, law, sovereignty, neo-liberalism, intellectual property rights, WELFARE state
Robbins, Paul. 2000. The practical politics of knowing: State environmental knowledge and local political economy. Economic Geography 76:126-144. Author's Keywords: political ecology, local knowledge, EPISTEMOLOGY, rajasthan ACSC Keywords: policy, forest management, India, gender, degradation
Ross, A. and Pickering, K. 2002. The Politics of Reiniegratinig Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: The Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival. Human Ecology 30:187-214. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, indigenous knowledge, American Indians, ABORIGINAL Australians