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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
2007. Traditional forest knowledge: Challenges and opportunities. Forest Ecology and Management 249. Author's Keywords: conservation, indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, forest history, sustainable forest management, Cultural landscapes, Heritage
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
Acheson, James M. 2006. Institutional failure in resources management. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:117-134. Author's Keywords: collective action, natural resources, conservation rules, devising institutions, rational choice
Adams, W. M. 1997. Rationalization and conservation: Ecology and the management of nature in the United Kingdom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 22:277-291. Author's Keywords: ecology, conservation, nature, equilibrium, ecological restoration, chaos
Adams, William M. and Hulme, David. 2001. "Conservation and community: Changing narratives, policies and practices in African conservation," in African wildlife and livelihoods: The promise and performance of community conservation. Edited by Hulme, D. and Murphree, M., pp. 9-23. Oxford: James CUrrey Ltd. ACSC Keywords: development, counter-narratives, CBC, Community-based Conservation, ICDPs, Integrated Conservation Development Projects
Adams, William M., Aveling, Ros, Brockington, Dan, Dickson, Barney, Elliott, Jo, Hutton, Jon, Roe, Dilys, Vira, Bhaskar, and Wolmer, William. 2004. Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of poverty. Science 306:1146-1149. ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, costs, ecology, poverty, biodiversity, conservation, poor, rural, policy
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
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
Adger, W. Neil. 2000. Social and ecological resilience: Are they related?. Progress in Human Geography 24:347-364. Author's Keywords: sustainable development, human ecology, cultural geography, resource dependency, ecological resilience ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, sustainability, knowledge, environment, inequality, Southeast Asia, vulnerability, security, resource
Adoukonou-Sagbadja, H., Dansi, A., Vodouhe, R., and Akpagana, K. 2006. Indigenous knowledge and traditional conservation of fonio millet (Digitaria exilis, Digitaria iburua) in Togo. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2379-2395. Author's Keywords: Ethnobotany, Digitaria, Fonio, Genetic resources management, On-farm conservation, Togo
Agrawal, A. 2000. Adaptive management in transboundary protected areas: The Bialowieza National Park and Biosphere Reserve as a case study. Environmental Conservation 27:326-333. Author's Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, population, adaptive management, transboundary protected areas, forest, Community-based
Agrawal, Arun. 2001. Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World Development 29:1649-1672. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, common-pool resources, property rights, institutions ACSC Keywords: conservation, South, institutions, collective action, watershed management, natural-resources, forest management, community, population, politics, history, CPRs
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
Agrawal, Arun and Gibson, Clark C. 1999. Enchantment and disenchantment: The role of community in natural resource conservation. World Development 27:629-649. ACSC Keywords: resource management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, norms
Agrawal, Arun and Gibson, Clark C. 2001. "Introduction: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation," in Communities and the environment : ethnicity, gender, and the state in community-based conservation, pp. xiv, 205. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ACSC Keywords: resource management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, norms, Nature conservation, natural resources, citizen participation, ICRAF seminar agroforestry
Agrawal, Arun and Redford, Kent. 2006. "Poverty, Development, and Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting In The Dark?," in Wildlife Conservation Society, pp. 1-50. Bronx. Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, governance, decentralization, sustainable development, environmental policy, ecotourism, extractive reserves
Agrawal, Arun and Ostrom, Elinor. 2006. Political science and conservation biology: A dialog of the deaf. Conservation Biology 20:681-682. ACSC Keywords: ecology, biodiversity, politics, Nature conservation, Environmental protection, local government, conservation biology, Environmental sciences, political science, Practical
Aguilar-Støen, Mariel and Dhillion, Shivcharn S. 2003. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Mesoamerica: Environmental and developmental perspectives. Environmental Conservation 30:131-138. Author's Keywords: conservation, monitoring, implementation, CBD, inventory, Convention on Biodiversity ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
Aguilar-Støen, Mariel and Moe, Stein R. 2007. Medicinal plant conservation and management: Distribution of wild and cultivated species in eight countries. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:1973-1981. Author's Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, medicinal plants, species diversity, agro-landscapes ACSC Keywords: forests, Mexico, resources, ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, AVAILABILITY, FLORA
Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino and Oliveira, Rosilane Ferreira. 2007. Is the use-impact on native caatinga species in Brazil reduced by the high species richness of medicinal plants?. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 113:156-170. Author's Keywords: conservation, local knowledge, ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, quantitative ethnobotany, use redundancy ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, knowledge, peru, diversity, Vegetation, redundancy, Ethnobotany, semiarid northeastern region, forest coastal communities
Alcala, Angel C. and Russ, Garry R. 2006. No-take marine reserves and reef fisheries management in the Philippines: A new people power revolution. Ambio 35:245-254. ACSC Keywords: management, Philippines, fisheries, marine conservation, marine reserves, reef, No-take, Sumilon Island, Apo Island, people power revolution
Alcorn, Janis B. 2005. "Dances around the fire: Conservation orgainzations and community-based natural resource management," in Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Edited by Brosius, J. P., Tsing, A. L., and Zerner, C., pp. 37-68. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. ACSC Keywords: Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, local, representation, community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, sustainable, environmental degradation, non-governmental organizations, donors, governments, CBC community-based conservation
Alcorn, Janis B. 2000. Borders, rules and governance: Mapping to catalyse changes in policy and management. International Insitute for Environment and Development. ACSC Keywords: conservation
Alcorn, Janis B. and Royo, Antoinette G. 2000. Indigenous social movements and ecological resilience: Lessons from the Dayak of Indonesia. Biodiversity Support Program. ACSC Keywords: conservation
Aldrich, Mark, Belokurov, Alexander, Bowling, Jill, Dudley, Nigel, Elliot, Chris, Higgins-Zogib, Lisa, Hurd, Jack, Lacerda, Leornardo, Mansourian, Stephanie, McShane, Tom, Pollard, Duncan, Sayer, Jeffrey A., and Schuyt, Kirsten. 2003. Integrating forest protection, management, and restoration at a landscape scale. World Wildlife Fund. ACSC Keywords: conservation, sustainability, forestry
Allendorf, Teri, Swe, Khaing Khaing, Oo, Thida, Htut, Ye, Aung, Myint, Allendorf, Keera, Hayek, Lee-Ann, Leimgruber, Peter, and Wemmer, Chris. 2006. Community attitudes toward three protected areas in Upper Myanmar (Burma). 33:344-352. Author's Keywords: management, conservation, protected areas, Burma, attitude, myanmar, park-people
Alvard, Michael S. 1994. Conservation by native peoples: Prey choice in a depleted habitat. Human Nature-an Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective 5:127-154. Author's Keywords: conservation, subsistence hunting, foraging theory, amazonia, peru, prey choice ACSC Keywords: ecology, local, group selection, South America, indigenous, native
Alves, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega and Rosa, Ierecê L. 2007. Zootherapeutic practices among fishing communities in North and Northeast Brazil: A comparison. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 111:82-103. Author's Keywords: conservation, Brazil, Traditional medicine, ethnozoology, zootherapeutic ACSC Keywords: peru, people, tambopata, ANIMALS, quantitative ethnobotany, useful plants
Andrews, Joann M. 2006. Shifts of strategies and focus of the conservation efforts of PRONATURA on the Yucatan Peninsula: A personal history. Landscape and Urban Planning 74:193-203. Author's Keywords: yucatan peninsula, PRONATURA, conservation effort
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
Anthony, Brandon. 2007. The dual nature of parks: Attitudes of neighboring communities toward Kruger National Park, South Africa. Environmental Conservation 34:236-245. Author's Keywords: attitudes, protected area, Kruger National Park, conservation policies, damage causing animals, park-people relationship
Araújo, M. B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Reginster, I., Rounsevell, M., and Whittaker, R. J. 2008. Exposure of European biodiversity to changes in human-induced pressures. Environmental Science and Policy 11:38-45. Author's Keywords: biodiversity, Europe, climate change, reserve selection, complementarity, land-use change, anthropogenic pressure, conservation biogeography
Arambiza, Evelio and Painter, Michael. 2006. Biodiversity conservation and the quality of life of indigenous people in the Bolivian Chaco. Human Organization 65:20-34. Author's Keywords: conservation, sustainable development, protected areas, indigenous people, land tenure and land rights
Archabald, Karen and Naughton-Treves, Lisa. 2001. Tourism revenue-sharing around national parks in Western Uganda: Early efforts to identify and reward local communitites. Environmental Conservation 28:135-149. Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, wildlife, ecotourism, Uganda, national parks, revenue-sharing ACSC Keywords: tourism, communities
Armitage, Derek R. 2005. Adaptive capacity and community-based natural resource management. Environmental Management 35:703-715. Author's Keywords: sustainability, resilience, adaptation, capacity, community-based management, collaboration, participatory management ACSC Keywords: scale, conservation, institutions, politics, fisheries management, central sulawesi, comanagement, indonesia, histories, lessons, Southeast Asia
Armitage, Derek R. 2003. Traditional agroecological knowledge, adaptive mangement and the socio-politics of conservation in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Environmental Conservation 30:79-90. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, environmental policy, community-based management, agroecosystems, ecosystems ACSC Keywords: conservation, indonesia, Sulawesi, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge
Asher, Kiran. 2000. Mobilizing the discourses of sustainable economic development and biodiversity conservation in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. Strategies 13:111-125. ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, knowledge, forests, sustainable development, South America, Columbia, Choco
Aswani, Shankar and Hamilton, Richard J. 2004. Integrating indigenous ecological knowledge and customary sea tenure with marine and social science for conservation of bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Environmental Conservation 31:69-83. Author's Keywords: conservation, bumphead parrotfish, customary sea tenure, indigenous ecological knowledge, marine science, marine protected areas, social science, Solomon Islands ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, TEK, human
Athanas, Andrea, Vorhies, Frank, Ghersi, Fernando, Shadie, Peter, and Shultis, John. 2001. Guidelines for financing protected areas in East Asia. IUCN. ACSC Keywords: conservation, financing
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
Bajracharya, Siddhartha B., Furley, Peter A., and Newton, Adrian C. 2006. Impacts of community-based conservation on local communities in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2765-2786. Author's Keywords: wildlife, biodiversity, conservation, Nepal, protected area, Community-based, Crop damage ACSC Keywords: management, attitudes, people, livestock depredation, TIGER RESERVE, HUMAN-NEEDS, CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK
Balmford, Andrew and Whitten, Tony. 2003. Who should pay for tropical conservation, and how could the costs be met?. Oryx 37:238-250. Author's Keywords: opportunity costs, ecological services, tropical conservation, conservation costs, funding gap, option values
Balram, Shivanand, Suzana, Dragićević, and Meredith, Thomas. 2004. A collaborative GIS method for integrating local and technical knowledge in establishing biodiversity conservation priorities. Biodiversity and Conservation 13:1195-1208. Author's Keywords: biodiversity conservation, collaborative gis, data management, geographic information systems (gis), local and technical experts ACSC Keywords: management, community, indigenous knowledge, landscape, participation, decision-making, information, MODEL
Baltz, Michael E. 1999. Overconsumption of resources in industrial countries: The other missing agenda. Conservation Biology 13:213-215. ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, human population, consumption, Ehrlich
Bandara, Ranjith. 2004. Economic value of conservation: The case of the Asian elephant. South Asia Economic Journal 5:283-300. Author's Keywords: conservation, total economic value, Asian Elephant, Eco-tourism, Human–elephant conflict
Baral, Nabin and Heinen, Joel T. 2007. Resources use, conservation attitudes, management intervention and park-people relations in the Western Terai landscape of Nepal. Environmental Conservation 34:64-72. Author's Keywords: Nepal, biodiversity conservation, resource use, protected areas management, participatory conservation, CONSERVATION ATTITUDES ACSC Keywords: wildlife, local people, communities, programs, Tanzania, national park, reserve, behavior
Baral, Nabin, Stern, Marc J., and Heinen, Joel T. 2007. Integrated conservation and development project life cycles in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: Is development overpowering conservation?. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:2903-2917. Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, Nepal, gender, ICDP, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, annapurna ACSC Keywords: management, parks, communities, developing countries, people, issues
Barker, Mary L. 1980. National parks, conservation, and agrarian reform in Peru. Geographical Review 70:1-18. ACSC Keywords: conservation, peru, national parks, agrarian reform
Barney, Keith. 2004. Re-encountering resistance: Plantation activism and smallholder production in Thailand and Sarawak, Malaysia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 45:325-339. Author's Keywords: resistance, Southeast Asia, plantations, smallholder production ACSC Keywords: forestry, environmental degradation, social movements, rural development, forest conservation, TREE farms