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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. 1989. "Management of common-property resources," in Economic anthropology. Edited by Plattner, Stuart, pp. 487. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ACSC Keywords: common property, resource management, management, Hardin, open access, tragedy of the commons
Acheson, James M. 2006. Lobster and groundfish management in the Gulf of Maine: A rational choice perspective. Human Organization 65:240-252. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, rational choice, lobster industry, groundfish industry, maine
Adams, William M., Brockington, Dan, Dyson, Jane, and Vira, Bhaskar. 2003. Managing tragedies: Understanding conflict over common pool resources. Science 302:1915-1916. ACSC Keywords: scale, semiarid grazing systems, nonequilibrium, common pool resources, conflict, natural resource management
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, 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
Adger, W. Neil and Luttrell, Cecilia. 2000. Property rights and the utilisation of wetlands. Ecological Economics 35:75-89. Author's Keywords: common property, wetlands, indonesia, Vietnam, mangroves, multiple use resources, privatisation ACSC Keywords: management, ecosystem services, systems, people
Adger, W. Neil, Hughes, Terry P., Folke, Carl, Carpenter, Stephen R., and Rockstrom, Johan. 2005. Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters. Science 309:1036-1039. ACSC Keywords: management, capacity, resistance, crisis, climate-change, vulnerability, coral-reefs, hurricanes, tsunami
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 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. 2003. Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:243-262. Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, sustainability, institution
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
Alexander, Sara E. 2000. Resident attitudes towards conservation and black howler monkeys in Belize: the Community Baboon Sanctuary. Environmental Conservation 27:341-350. Author's Keywords: Belize, protected areas, resident populations, attitudes, management issues, benefits ACSC Keywords: wildlife, local people, obstacles, park
Allen, Stewart D. and Gough, Amy. 2006. Monitoring environmental justice impacts: Vietnamese-American longline fishermen adapt to the Hawaii swordfish fishery closure. Human Organization 65:319-328. Author's Keywords: environmental justice, social impact assessment, hawaii longline fleet, impacts of fishing regulations, vietnamese-american fishermen ACSC Keywords: management, policy, commercial fishing families, job satisfaction
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
Amituana'i, Allamanda and Sauafea, Fatima. Improving Community Skills and Knowledge to Build, Enhance and Promote Environmental Stewardship. :11-14. Author's Keywords: collaborative management, community participation stewardship, and network
Amsalu, Aklilu and de Graaff, Jan. 2007. Determinants of adoption and continued use of stone terraces for soil and water conservation in an Ethiopian highland watershed. Ecological Economics 61:294-302. Author's Keywords: Ethiopia, land tenure, livestock production, stone terraces, sustained adoption, sequential modeling ACSC Keywords: farmers, Tanzania, degradation, projects, management practices, behavior, technologies, investments
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
Appeldoorn, Richard S. 2008. Transforming reef fisheries management: Application of an ecosystem-based approach in the USA Caribbean. Environmental Conservation 35:232-241. Author's Keywords: caribbean, marine reserves, ecosystem-based management, reef fisheries
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
Armitage, Derek. 2004. Nature-society dynamics, policy narratives, and ecosystem management: Integrating perspectives on upland change and complexity in central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Ecosystems 7:717-728. Author's Keywords: management, biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystem, indonesia, environment and development, complexity, uplands
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
Asbjornsen, Heidi and Ashton, Mark S. 2002. Community forestry in Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 15:1-16. Author's Keywords: Mexico, Chalchijapa, Chimalapas, Oaxaca, Sierra Norte, Ixtlán de Juárez ACSC Keywords: development, forests, forestry, participatory management
Ashenafi, Zelealem Tefera and Leader-Williams, N. 2005. Indigenous common property resource management in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology 33:539-563. Author's Keywords: Ethiopia, common property resources, indigenous resource managementn institutions, Qero system, Guassa
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
Austin, Rebecca L. and Eder, James F. 2007. Environmentalism, Development, and participation on Palawan island, Philippines. Society & Natural Resources 20:363-371. Author's Keywords: sustainable development, environmentalism, NGOs, participation, Philippines, costal resource management, community-based resource management, hybrid NGO's
Baba, Marietta L. 2003. Working knowledge goes global: knowledge sharing and performance in a globally distributed team. Anthropology of Work Review 24:19-29. ACSC Keywords: management, globalization, information networks, social networks
Baigorria, Guillermo A. and Romero, Consuelo C. 2007. Assessment of erosion hotspots in a watershed: Integrating the WEPP model and GIS in a case study in the Peruvian Andes. Environmental Modelling & Software 22:1175-1183. Author's Keywords: GIS, andes, geospatial modeling, wepp, soil loss, runoff ACSC Keywords: management, peru, geographic information-systems, prediction
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
Baker, Laura E. and Hoffman, M. Timm. 2006. Managing variability: Herding strategies in communal rangelands of semiarid Namaqualand, South Africa. Human Ecology 34:765-784. Author's Keywords: pastoralism, herd mobility, livestock production, opportunistic management
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
Baldwin, Andrew. 2003. The nature of boreal forest: Governmentality and forest-nature. Space and Culture 6:415-428. Author's Keywords: management, governmentality, cultural geography, boreal forest, sustainable forest, hybrid nature
Ballard, Heidi L. and Huntsinger, Lynn. 2006. Salal harvester local ecological knowledge, harvest practices and understory management on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Human Ecology 34:529-547. Author's Keywords: nontimber forest products, local ecological knowledge, pacific northwest, harvest, sustainable resource management, Gaultheria shallon, salal
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
Banerjee, Bobby Subrahata. 2003. Who sustains whose development? Sustainable development and the reinvention of nature. Organization Studies 24:143-180. Author's Keywords: sustainable development, environmentalism, neo-colonialism, North–South relations, critical management studies
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
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
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
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
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
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
Berke, Phillip, Ericksen, Neil, Crawford, Jan, and Dixon, Jenny. 2002. Planning and indigenous people: Human rights and environmental protection in New Zealand. Journal of Planning Education and Research 22:115-134. ACSC Keywords: management, planning, indigenous rights, governments, indigenous people, human rights, Environmental protection, environmental justice, land use, capacity building, New Zealand, leadership, RMAct, Resource Management Act, plan quality, local plans
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