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Abel, Tom and Stepp, John Richard. 2003. A new ecosystems ecology for anthropology. Conservation Ecology 7:-.
ACSC Keywords: sciences, complex, ecosystems ecology, complexity theory, non-equilibrium theory, integrative disciplines |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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Altieri, Miguel A. 2001. Genetically engineered crops: Separating the myths from the reality. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 21:130-146.
ACSC Keywords: environment, agriculture, farmers, crops, genetically modified, welfare, biotechnology, transgenic crops, genetically engineered, world hunger, herbicide resistance, superweeds, Bt crops, nontarget species, agroecology, organic farming |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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Balée, William L. 1992. "People of the fallow: A historical ecology of foraging in lowland South America," in Conservation of neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use. Edited by Redford, K. H. and Padoch, C., pp. 35-57. New York: Columbia University Press.
ACSC Keywords: ecology, forests, South America, historical ecology |
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Bassett, Thomas J. and Zuéli, Koli Bi. 2003. "The Ivorian savanna: Global narrative and local knowledge of environmental change," in Political Ecology. Edited by Zimmerer, K. S. and Bassett, T. J., pp. 115-136. New York: The Guilford Press.
ACSC Keywords: scale, political ecology, global, local knowledge |
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Bates, Diane and Rudel, Thomas K. 2000. The political ecology of conserving tropical rain forests: A cross-national analysis. Society & Natural Resources 13:619-634.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, deforestation, tropical rainforests ACSC Keywords: deforestation, political ecology, forests, parks, WWF, Madagascar, World Wildlife Fund, counter coalitions, IUCN |
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Batterbury, Simon P. J., Forsyth, Timothy, and Thomson, Koy. 1997. Environmental transformations in developing countries: Hybrid research and democratic policy. Geographical Journal 163:126-132.
Author's Keywords: desertification, deforestation, environmental policy, environmental management, environment and development, industrialization ACSC Keywords: scale, governance, knowledge, political ecology, politics, construction, environmental history, access, relevance, resource degradation, resource access, historical analysis |
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Batterbury, Simon P. J. and Bebbington, Anthony J. 1999. Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction. Land Degradation & Development 10:279-289.
Author's Keywords: scale, political ecology, environmental history, access, relevance, resource degradation ACSC Keywords: management, conservation, sustainability, erosion, land, cultivation, SOIL |
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Bebbington, Anthony J. 2004. "Movements, modernizations, and markets: Indigenous organizations and agrarian strategies in Ecuador," in Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements, 2nd edition. Edited by Peet, Richard and Watts, Michael, pp. xix, 444 p. London ; New York: Routledge.
ACSC Keywords: Human ecology Developing countries Case studies, Economic development Environmental aspects Case studies |
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Berkes, Fikret, Colding, Johan, and Folke, Carl. 2000. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications 10:1251-1262.
Author's Keywords: resource management, resilience, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge, human ecology, social learning ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, TEK, science |
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Bird, K., Hulme, D., Moore, K., and Shepherd, A. 2002. "Chronic poverty and remote rural areas," in Chronic Poverty Research Centre, pp. 1-57. Manchester.
Author's Keywords: rural, conflict, rural poverty, rural development, Chronic poverty, remote rural area, RRA, chronically poor, spatial poverty trap, urban poverty, transient poverty, backward regions, islands of poverty, human capital, risk, failure, agro-ecology |
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Bird, Kate, Hulme, David, Moore, Karen, and Shepherd, Andrew. Chronic poverty and remote rural areas.
ACSC Keywords: poverty, rural, policy, conflict, livelihoods, rural poverty, rural development, Chronic poverty, remote rural area, RRA, chronically poor, spatial poverty trap, urban poverty, transient poverty, backward regions, islands of poverty, human capital, risk, failure, agro-ecology |
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Blaser, Mario. 2009. The Threat of the Yrmo: The Political Ontology of a Sustainable Hunting Program. American Anthropologist 111:10-20.
Author's Keywords: hunting, political ecology, Indigenous peoples, ontology, Paraguay, MULTICULTURALISM, traditional knoledge, culural assimilation, multinaturalism, political ontology |
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Bowman, D. M. J. S. 2001. Future eating and country keeping: What role has environmental history in the management of biodiversity?. Journal of Biogeography 28:549-564.
Author's Keywords: environmental history, landscape ecology, extinction, global environmental change, Australia, land management, pleistocene megafauna, thylacine (thylacinus cyncocephalus), woody biomass ACSC Keywords: fire, patterns, decline, geography, colonization, pleistocene extinction, australian prehistory, queensland, megafauna, woodland |
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Bowman, D. M. J. S. 1998. Death of biodiversity: The urgent need for global ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 7:237-240.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, extinction, global environmental change, human impacts, biogeochemical cycles, global ecology, Kyoto protocol |
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Brosius, J. Peter. 1999. Analyses and interventions: Anthropological engagements with environmentalism. Current Anthropology 40:277-309.
ACSC Keywords: management, conservation, anthropology, governance, political ecology, discourse, community, representation, environmentalism, NGOs, cultural-invention, world-system, third-world, identity, authenticity, resistance, nongovernmental organizations, agency, cultural production |
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Brosius, J. Peter. 2006. "What counts as local knowledge in global environmental assessments and conventions?," in Bridging scales and knowledge systems : concepts and applications in ecosystem assessment. Edited by Reid, Walter V., Berkes, F., Wilbanks, T. J., and Capistrano, D., pp. 129-144. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
ACSC Keywords: human ecology, ecosystem management |
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Brown, J. C. and Purcell, M. 2005. There's nothing inherent about scale: political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon. Geoforum 36:607-624.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, Brazil, political economy |
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Brown, Katrina. 1998. The political ecology of biodiversity, conservation and development in Nepal's Terai: Confused meanings, means and ends. Ecological Economics 24:73-87.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, political ecology, Nepal, stakeholders |
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Brunckhorst, D. J. 2005. Integration research for shaping sustainable regional landscapes. Journal of Research Practice 1.
Author's Keywords: institutions, social-ecological systems, integration, landscape ecology, natural resource policy, turning points |
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Bryant, R. L.Bryant, Raymond L. 1992. Political ecology: An emerging research agenda in third-world studies. Political Geography 11:12-36.
ACSC Keywords: political ecology, Third World, underdeveloped, developing, research agenda, environmental change, social change |
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Bryant, Raymond L. 1993. Forest problems in colonial Burma: Historical variations on contemporary themes. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 3:122-137.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, forest management, burma (myanmar), teak, sha, colonial period ACSC Keywords: peasant resistance, fire management regimes, shifting cultivators |
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Bryant, Raymond L. 1998. Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world: A review. Progress in Physical Geography 22:79-94.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, Third World, power relations, knowledge construction, conflict over access |
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Bryant, Raymond L. 2000. Politicized moral geographies: Debating biodiversity conservation and ancestral domain in the Philippines. Political Geography 19:673-705.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, biodiversity conservation, the Philippines, moral discourse, socionatural place, ancestral domain |
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Campbell, D., Lusch, DP, Smucker, TA, and Wangui, EE. 2005. Multiple methods in the study of driving forces of land use and land cover change: A case study of SE Kajiado district, Kenya. Human Ecology 33:763-794.
Author's Keywords: Kenya, methodology, remote sensing, land use change, patterns and processes ACSC Keywords: political ecology, landscapes, farmers, wildlife conservation, livestock, drought, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, HERDERS, WILDEBEEST, PROSPECT |
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Campbell, DJ, Lusch, DP, Smucker, TA, and Wangui, EE. 2005. Multiple methods in the study of driving forces of land use and land cover change: A case study of SE Kajiado District, Kenya. HUMAN ECOLOGY 33:763-794.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, Kenya, landscapes, farmers, methodology, remote sensing, land use change, wildlife conservation, livestock, drought, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, patterns and processes, HERDERS, WILDEBEEST, PROSPECT |
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Campbell, DJ, Lusch, DP, Smucker, TA, and Wangui, EE. 2005. Multiple methods in the study of driving forces of land use and land cover change: A case study of SE Kajiado District, Kenya. Human Ecology 33:763-794.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, Kenya, landscapes, farmers, methodology, remote sensing, land use change, wildlife conservation, livestock, drought, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, patterns and processes, HERDERS, WILDEBEEST, PROSPECT |
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Campbell, DJ, Lusch, DP, Smucker, TA, and Wangui, EE. 2005. Multiple methods in the study of driving forces of land use and land cover change: A case study of SE Kajiado District, Kenya. Human Ecology 33:763-794.
Author's Keywords: political ecology, Kenya, landscapes, farmers, methodology, remote sensing, land use change, wildlife conservation, livestock, drought, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, patterns and processes, HERDERS, WILDEBEEST, PROSPECT |
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Carney, J. 1993. Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: The intersection of gender with agrarian change in the Gambia. Economic Geography 69:329-348.
Author's Keywords: environment, gender, resistance, irrigation, community property regimes ACSC Keywords: political ecology, women |
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Castillo, Alicia. 2000. Communication and utilization of science in developing countries: The case of Mexican ecology. Science Communication 22:46-72.
ACSC Keywords: Mexico, ecosystems, human, society, ecological science, Mexican ecology, social politics, ecological problems, social problems |
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Chan, Kai M.A., Robert Pringle, Jai Ranganathan, Carol Boggs, Yvonne Chan, Paul Ehrlich, Peter Haff, Nicole Heller, Karim Al-Khafaji, and Dena Macmynowski. 2007. When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation. Conservation Biology 21:59-68.
Author's Keywords: Community-based Conservation, poverty, conservation, ecosystem services, local communities, ethics, Transdisciplinarity, distribution of costs and benefits, mediation ACSC Keywords: management, ecology, integrated conservation, timber, ecosystem services, crop pollination, economic value, biodiversity hotspots, Biosphere Reserve, tropical forest conservation |
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Chan, KMA, Pringle, RM, Ranganatran, J, Boggs, CL, Chan, YL, Ehrlich, PR, Haff, PK, Heller, NE, Al-Krafaji, K, and Macmynowski, DP. 2007. When agendas collide: Human welfare and biological conservation. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 21:59-68.
Author's Keywords: management, Community-based Conservation, ecology, poverty, integrated conservation, timber, ecosystem services, local communities, crop pollination, economic value, biodiversity hotspots, ethics, Biosphere Reserve, tropical forest conservation, Transdisciplinarity, distribution of costs and benefits, mediation |
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Chandler, P. 1994. Adaptive ecology of traditionally derived agroforestry in China. Human Ecology 22:415-442.
Author's Keywords: China, agroforestry, ethnoecology, peasants, cunninghamia lanceolata, proto-science |
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Chave, J. and Levin, S. 2003. Scale and scaling in ecological and economic systems. Environmental and Resource Economics 26:527-557.
Author's Keywords: scale, ecology, criticality, economy, statistical mechanics ACSC Keywords: scale |
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Choy, Timothy K. 2005. Articulated knowledges: Environmental forms after universality's demise. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 107:5-18.
Author's Keywords: environmental politics, EXPERTISE, FORM, articulation, Hong Kong ACSC Keywords: ecology, politics, zimbabwe eastern highlands |
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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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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 |
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Collinge, Sharon K. 2001. Spatial Ecology and Biological Conservation. Biological Conservation 100:1-2.
ACSC Keywords: scale, ecology, conservation |
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Conroy, M. J., Allen, C. R., Peterson, J. T., Pritchard, L., and Moore, C. T. 2003. Landscape change in the southern Piedmont: Challenges, solutions, and uncertainty across scales. Conservation Ecology 8:-.
Author's Keywords: ecology, projects ACSC Keywords: scale, resilience, landscape ecology, adaptive feedback, stochastic events, the Southern Piedmont |
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Conte, Christopher. 1996. "Nature reorganized: Ecological history in the plateau forests of the West Usambara Mountains 1850-1935," in Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania. Edited by Maddox, Gregory, Giblin, James Leonard, and Kimambo, Isaria N., pp. 96-122. LondonAthens: James Curry; Ohio University Press.
ACSC Keywords: Human ecology Tanzania History, Environmental policy Tanzania, Environmental protection Tanzania, Tanzania Social conditions, Tanzania Economic conditions, Tanzania Politics and government |
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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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Cronon, W. 1996. The trouble with wilderness - A response. Environmental History 1:47-55.
ACSC Keywords: scale, historical ecology, construction of nature |
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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 |