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Abbott, James G., Campbell, Lisa M., Hay, Clinton J., Naesje, Tor F., and Purvis, John. 2007. Market-resource links and fish vendor livelihoods in the upper zambezi river floodplains. Human Ecology 35:559-574.
Author's Keywords: livelihoods, markets, sub-saharan africa, artisanal fisheries, floodplains ACSC Keywords: management, conservation, africa, community, strategies, Ghana, dynamics, small-scale fisheries, diversification, Lake Chad |
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Adams, William M., Potkanski, T., and Sutton, J. E. G. 1994. Indigenous farmer-managed irrigation in Sonjo, Tanzania. Geographical Journal 160:17-32.
Author's Keywords: Tanzania, irrigation, sub-saharan africa, agricultural development, indigenous technical knowledge |
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Adams, William M. and Infield, Mark. 2003. Who is on the gorilla’s payroll? Claims on tourist revenue from a Ugandan national park. World Development 31:177-190.
Author's Keywords: africa, Uganda, national parks, conservation and development, community conservation |
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Adams, William M. and Watson, E. E. 2003. Soil erosion, indigenous irrigation and environmental sustainability, Marakwet, Kenya. Land Degradation and Development 14:109-122.
Author's Keywords: sustainability, africa, Kenya, irrigation, soil conservation, soil erosion, indigenous agriculture ACSC Keywords: management, agriculture, Tanzania, water, rules, system, Kilimanjaro |
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Adger, W. Neil, Benjaminsen, Tor A., Brown, Katrina, and Svarstad, Hanne. 2001. Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses. Development and Change 32:681-715.
ACSC Keywords: scale, conflict, development narratives, resource-management, desertification, africa, deforestation, decentralization, perspectives, knowledge, mali, political ecology, forests, biodiversity climate change, discourse |
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Anderson, David M. 1999. "Rehabilitation, resettlement and restocking: Ideology and practice in pastoralist development," in The poor are not us: Poverty and pastoralism in Eastern Africa. Edited by Anderson, David and Broch-Due, Vigdis, pp. 240-256. OxfordNairobiAthens: J. Curry ;E.A.E.P. ;Ohio University Press.
ACSC Keywords: poverty, East Africa, livestock, PASTORAL systems, Economic aspects, HERDERS, Economic conditions, Social conditions |
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Andrianandrasana, Herizo T., Randriamahefasoa, Jonah, Durbin, Joanna, Lewis, Richard E., and Ratsimbazafy, Jonah H. 2005. Participatory ecological monitoring of the Alaotra wetlands in Madagascar. Biodiversity and Conservation 14:2757-2774.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, Madagascar, ecological monitoring, fish, lac alaotra, lemurs, locally-based monitoring, participation, waterbirds, wetlands ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, africa, Madagascar, wetlands, marine, monitoring and evaluation |
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Antona, Martine, Biénabe, Estelle Motte, Salles, Jean-Michel, Péchard, Géraldine, Aubert, Sigrid, and Ratsimbarison, Rivo. 2004. Rights transfers in Madagascar biodiversity policies: Achievements and significance. Environment and Development Economics 9:825-847.
ACSC Keywords: resource management, policy, africa, decentralization, community, Madagascar, Secured Local management of Natural Resources, GELOSE |
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Ashley, Caroline and Elliot, Joanna. 2003. "Just wildlife?" or a source of local development?. Overseas Development Institute 85.
ACSC Keywords: development, poverty, livelihood, East Africa, wildlife management, rural development |
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Attwell, C. A. M. and Cotterill, F. P. D. 2000. Postmodernism and African conservation science. Biodiversity and Conservation 9:559-577.
Author's Keywords: ecology, conservation, africa, knowledge, deconstruction, science, sociology ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, indigenous knowledge, IK, sustainable development, agriculture |
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Barrett, Christopher B., Brandon, Katrina, Gibson, Clark C., and Gjertsen, Heidi. 2001. Conserving tropical biodiversity amid weak institutions. Bioscience 51:497-502.
ACSC Keywords: scale, CBC, Community-based Conservation, natural resource management, sustainability, africa, institutions, community, politics, lessons, integrated conservation, programs, networks, development projects |
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Bassett, Thomas J. Containing the Donzow:The politics of scale in Côte d’Ivoire. Africa Today .
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Becker, C. Dustin and Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. Human ecology and resource sustainability: The importance of institutional diversity. Annual Review of Ecol. Syst. 26:113-133.
Author's Keywords: common-pool resources, institutions, complexity, spatial and temporal scales, design principles ACSC Keywords: africa, common-pool resources, institutions, sustainable, Uganda, CPR |
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Bennett, James and Barrett, Hazel. 2007. Rangeland as a common property resource: Contrasting insights from communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. 35:97-112.
Author's Keywords: South Africa, livestock, common property regime, rangeland, grazing management |
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Blaikie, Piers. 1989. Environment and access to resources in Africa. Africa 59:18-40.
ACSC Keywords: colonialism, resilience, African agriculture, environmental perceptions |
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Blaikie, Piers. 2006. Is small really beautiful? Community-based natural resource management in Malawi and Botswana. World Development 34:1942–1957.
Author's Keywords: community-based natural resource management, central and southern Africa |
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Blowfield, Michael E. and Dolan, Catherine S. 2008. Stewards of Virtue? The Ethical Dilemma of CSR in African Agriculture. Development and Change 39:1-23.
ACSC Keywords: africa, ethics, corporate social responsibility, ethical dilemma, stewards of virtue |
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Blunt, Peter. 1984. Conditions for basic need satisfaction in Africa through decentralized forms of decision making. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 20:403-421.
ACSC Keywords: africa, human rights, developing countries, decision making, basic need satisfaction, UNESCO |
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Bollig, Michael and Schulte, Anja. 1999. Environmental change and pastoral perceptions: Degradation and indigenous knowledge in two African pastoral communities. Human Ecology 27:493-514.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, environmental degradation, African pastoralists |
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Bond, Ivan, Child, Brian, de la Harpe, Derek, Jones, Brian, Barnes, Jon, and Anderson, Hilary. 2004. "Prinvate land contribution to conservation in South Africa," in Parks in Transition: Biodiversity, rural development and the bottom line. Edited by Child, B., pp. 29-62. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, africa, parks, protected areas, Zimbabwe, South Africa, private, Namibia |
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Boone, Randall B. 2007. Effects of fragmentation on cattle in African savannas under variable precipitation. Landscape Ecology 22:1355-1369.
Author's Keywords: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, cattle, precipitation, subdivision, ecosystem modeling, coefficient of variation, savanna, shrub expansion ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, East Africa, systems, habitat fragmentation, variability, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, rainfall, herbivores |
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Borghesio, Luca. 2008. Effects of human subsistence activities on forest birds in northern Kenya. Conservation Biology 22:384-394.
Author's Keywords: Afromontane forest, forest birds, nomadic pastoralists, subsistence human activities, wood collection |
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Brockington, Daniel. 2004. Community conservation, inequality and injustice: Myths of power in protected area management. Conservation & Society 2:411-432.
ACSC Keywords: poverty, conservation, africa, community, local, protected areas, human, Tanzania, inequality, power, integrated conservation and development, ICDP, injustice, Mkomazi Game Reserve, fortress conservation, participatory approaches, critique |
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Brooks, Thomas M. and Thompson, Hazel Shokellu. 2001. Current bird conservation issues in Africa. The Auk 118:575-582.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, africa, Madagascar, bird conservation |
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Brown, David. 1998. Participatory biodiversity conservation: Rethinking the strategy in the low tourist potential areas of tropical Africa. Overseas Development Institute.
ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, policy, africa, protected areas, participation, tourism, livelihoods, tropics, preservation, alternative income |
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Brown, David, Cobb, Steven, and Inamdar. Amar. 1999. What's special about wildlife management in forests? Concepts and models of rights-based management, with Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa.. Overseas Development Institute.
ACSC Keywords: management, wildlife, conservation, africa, forests, protected areas, livelihoods, sustainable management, exclusion |
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Bryceson, Deborah Fahy and Bank, Leslie. 2001. End of an era: Africa's development policy parallax. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 19:5-23.
ACSC Keywords: scale, development, africa |
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Burgess, N. D., Butynski, T. M., Cordeiro, N. J., Doggart, N. H., Fjeldsa, J., Howell, K. M., Kilahama, F. B., Loader, S. P., Lovett, J. C., Mbilinyi, B., Menegon, M., Moyer, D. C., Nashanda, E., Perkin, A., Rovero, F., Stanley, W. T., and Stuart, S. N. 2007. The biological importance of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya. Biological Conservation 134:209-231.
Author's Keywords: protected areas, rain-forest, biodiversity conservation, diversity, endemism, biodiversity hotspots, Udzungwa mountains, conservation priorities, eastern arc mountains, north forest reserves, african monkey, systematics, speciation ACSC Keywords: Tanzania |
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Burgess, N. D., Hales, J. D., Ricketts, T. H., and Dinerstein, E. 2006. Factoring species, non-species values and threats into biodiversity prioritisation across the ecoregions of Africa and its islands. Biological Conservation 127:383-401.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, africa, hotspots, extinction, diversity, areas, patterns, Global 200, conservation priorities, INTEGRATING COSTS, south-africa, species, non-species biological values, threat, cape floristic region |
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Burney, D. A. 1997. "Theories and Facts Regarding Holocene Environmental Change Before and After Human Colonization," in Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar. Edited by Goodman, S. M. and Patterson, B. D., pp. 75-89. Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, africa, Madagascar, islands, Holocene |
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Buscher, Bram and Wolmer, William. 2007. Introduction: The politics of engagement between biodiversity conservation and the social sciences. Conservation and Society 5:1-21.
Author's Keywords: politics, social science, southern Africa, biodiversity conservation, engagement |
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Campbell, John R. 2004. Ethnic minorities and development: A prospective look at the situation of African pastoralists and hunter-gatherers. Ethnicities 4:5-26.
Author's Keywords: human rights, Indigenous peoples, sub-saharan africa |
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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 |
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Carret, Jean-Christophe and Loyer, Denis. 2003. Madagascar protected area network sustainable financing: Economic analysis perspective..
Author's Keywords: Madagascar, environment and development, cost/benefit analysis, Protected areas Economic aspects, Rural development Environmental aspects ACSC Keywords: africa, ecotourism, parks, protected areas, Madagascar, islands, economics, networks, World Parks Congress |
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Cheneau-Loquay, Annie. 2000. Africa in global communication networks: From networks to concrete uses. Information Development 16:219-232.
Author's Keywords: africa, technology, information, global communication networks, telecommunications, NICT ACSC Keywords: africa, technology, information, telecommunications, NICT, global communication network |
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Child, B. et. al. 2004. "Park agencies, performance and society in Southern Africa," in Parks in transition: Biodiversity, rural development and the bottom line. Edited by Child, B., pp. 125-164. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: wildlife, conservation, africa, parks, protected areas, NGOs, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, southern Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia |
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Child, B. et. al. 2004. "Innovations in park management," in Parks in transition: biodiversity, rural development and the bottom line. Edited by Child, B., pp. 165-188. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, rural, africa, parks, protected areas, NGOs, southern Africa, Zambia |
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Child, Graham. 2002. "An Historical Perspective on Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa," in .
ACSC Keywords: wildlife, conservation, africa, history, southern Africa |
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Christian Lund. 2006. Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. Development and Change 37:685-705.
Author's Keywords: africa, local politics, Twilight institution, public authority |
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Cleveland, David A. 1998. Balancing on a planet: Toward an agricultural anthropology for the twenty-first century. Human Ecology 26:323-340.
Author's Keywords: ecology, sustainability, africa, population, indigenous knowledge, agricultural intensification, sustainable agriculture, population and agriculture, ecological economics, carrying-capacity ACSC Keywords: IK, NGOs, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK |
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Cooke, A., Lutjeharms, J. R. E., and Vasseur, P. 2003. "Marine and coastal ecosystems," in The natural history of Madagascar. Edited by Goodman, S. M. and J. P Benstead., pp. 179-208. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, africa, Madagascar, marine, islands, ecosystems |
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Cornwall, Andrea, Samuel Musyoki, and Garrett Pratt. 2001. In search of a new impetus: Practitioners' reflections on PRA and participation in Kenya. IDS Working Paper 131.
ACSC Keywords: africa, participation, Kenya, participatory rural appraisal, participatory, PRA |
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Croll, Elisabeth and David Parkin. 1992. "Anthropology, the environment and development," in Bush base, forest farm : culture, environment and development. Edited by Croll, Elisabeth J. and Parkin, David J., pp. xi, 263. London ; New York: Routledge.
ACSC Keywords: development, anthropology, human, culture, agency, Human ecology Asia, Nature Effect of human beings on Africa, Nature Effect of human beings on Asia, Environmental psychology Cross-cultural studies, natural resources, ICRAF seminar agroforestry, Human ecologyy Africa |
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Crona, Beatrice Irene and Örjan Bodin. 2006. What you know is who you know? Communication patterns among resource users as a prerequisite for co-managementk. Ecology and Society 11.
Author's Keywords: East Africa, fisheries, co-management, ecological knowledge, social networks, communication patterns, fishing gear ACSC Keywords: local ecological knowledge |
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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 |
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Cumming, David. 2004. "Performance of parks in a century of change," in Parks in transition: Biodiversity, rural development and the bottom line. Edited by Child, B., pp. 105-124. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: wildlife, africa, parks, protected areas, landscape, southern Africa |
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de la Harpe, Derek, Fernhead, Peter, Davies, Richard G., Spenceley, Anna, Barnes, Jonathan, Cooper, Jenny, Child, Brian, and Hughes, George. 2004. "Does "commercialization" of protected areas threaten their conservation goals?," in Parks in Transition: biodliversity, rural development and the bottom line. Edited by Child, B., pp. 189-216. London: Earthscan.
ACSC Keywords: development, africa, parks, protected areas, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia |
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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 |
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Derman, B. 1995. Environmental NGOs, dispossession, and the state: The ideology and praxis of African nature and development. Human Ecology 23:199-215.
Author's Keywords: Zimbabwe, sustainable rural development, campfire ACSC Keywords: CBC, africa, Zimbabwe, community based conservation |
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Dewar, R. E. 1997. "Were people responsible for the extinction of Madagascar's subfossils, and how will we ever know?," in Natural change and human impact in Madagascar. Edited by Goodman, S. M. and Patterson, B. D., pp. 364-377. Washington D. C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
ACSC Keywords: africa, Madagascar, islands, human, Holocene, extinction, climate change |