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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
Abel, Tom. 1998. Complex adaptive systems, evolutionism, and ecology within anthropology: Interdisciplinary research for understanding cultural and ecological dynamics. Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology 2:6-29. ACSC Keywords: Systems theory, cultural evolution, cultural models, scale
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
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
Albrechts, Louis. 2003. Planning and power: Towards an emancipatory planning approach. Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy 21:905-924. ACSC Keywords: scale, governance, rationality, paradigm, planning
Allen, T. F. H. and Hoekstra, T. W. 1990. The confusion between scale-defined levels and conventional levels of organization in ecology. Journal of Vegetation Science 1:5-12. Author's Keywords: scale, community, population, criteria for observation, ecosystem, hierarchy theory, landscape
Amin, Ash. 2002. Spatialities of globalisation. Environment and Planning A 34:385-399. ACSC Keywords: scale, politics, globalization, geographies, spaces, place, global
Andrews, Paul W. 2002. The influence of postreliance detection on the deceptive efficacy of dishonest signals of intent - Understanding facial clues to deceit as the outcome of signaling tradeoffs. Evolution and Human Behavior 23:103-121. Author's Keywords: cooperation, deception, defection, dishonesty, facial expressions, honesty, intent, signal, sociopathy ACSC Keywords: trade-offs, tradeoffs, correspondence bias, evolutionary communicatoin theory, short-term benefits vs. long-term costs, temporal scales of tradeoffs
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
Arts, Bas. 2004. The global-local nexus: NGOs and the articulation of scale. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 95:498-510. Author's Keywords: biodiversity, forests, NGOs, politics of scale, global-local networks, human rights ACSC Keywords: scale, network theory
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
Bassett, Thomas J. Containing the Donzow:The politics of scale in Côte d’Ivoire. Africa Today . ACSC Keywords: scale, africa
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
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 Fernando, Jude L. 2006. Rescaling governance and the impacts of political and environmental decentralization: An introduction. World Development 34:1851–1863. Author's Keywords: scale, environmental governance, decentralization, geography, good governance
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
Becker, C. Dustin and Ghimire, Kabita. 2003. Synergy between traditional ecological knowledge and conservation science supports forest preservation in Ecuador. Conservation Ecology 8:-. ACSC Keywords: scale, institutions, indigenous knowledge, IK, protected areas, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, PAs, attitudes about biodiversity
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
Berkes, Fikret. 2002. "Cross-scale institutional linkages: Perspective from the bottom up," in The Drama of the Commons: Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, pp. 293-321. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. ACSC Keywords: scale, natural resource management, governance, institutions, commons
Berkes, Fikret. 2004. Rethinking community-based conservation. Conservation Biology 18:621-630. Author's Keywords: scale, common property, Community-based Conservation, social-ecological systems, participation, comanagement, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge ACSC Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge
Boedhihartono, A. K., Gunarso, Petrus, Levang, Patrice, and Sayer, Jeff. 2007. The principles of conservation and development: Do they apply in Malinau?. Ecology and Society 12:-. Author's Keywords: indonesia, east kalimantan, forest dependent peoples, forest-based livelihoods, landscape-scale conservation, sustainable forest landscape management ACSC Keywords: tropical forest biodiversity
Brenner, N. 2000. The Urban Question as a Scale Question: Reflections on Henri Lefebvre, Urban Theory and the Politics of Scale. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24:361-378. ACSC Keywords: scale, globalization, urban, space
Brenner, Neil. 2001. The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration. Progress in Human Geography 25:591-614. Author's Keywords: geographical scale, rescaling, production of space, sociospatial theory, structuration ACSC Keywords: scale, place, politics of scale, space
Brenner, Neil. 1998. Between fixity and motion: Accumulation, territorial organization and the historical geography of spatial scales. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16:459-481. ACSC Keywords: geography, spatial scale, territorial organization
Brown, Steven D. and Capdevila, Rose. 1999. "Perpetuum mobile: Sustance, force and the sociology of translation," in Actor network theory and after. Edited by Law, J. and Hassard, J., pp. 26-50. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ACSC Keywords: scale, network theory
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
Bunnell, T. G. and Coe, N. M. 2001. Spaces and scales of innovation. Progress in Human Geography 25:569-589. Author's Keywords: scale, globalization, networks, cross-scalar, de-territorialized, extra-local connections, innovation systems, research-and-development, learning region, corporate technology, industrial-research, economic-geography, systems, firms, internationalization ACSC Keywords: scale, network, space
Burgess, J., Clark, J., and Harrison, C. M. 2000. Knowledges in action: an actor network analysis of a wetland agri-environment scheme. Ecological Economics 35:119-132. Author's Keywords: policy, science, farmers, Nature conservation, technology, agri-environment schemes, actor network theory, wetland conservation, values, goals ACSC Keywords: scale, wetlands, networks, Europe, actor-network analysis
Callon, M. 1999. "Actor-network theory - the market test," in Actor Network Theory and After. Edited by Law, J. and Hassard, J., pp. 181-195. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ACSC Keywords: scale, network theory
Carlsson, L. and Berkes, F. 2005. Co-management: concepts and methodological implications. Journal of Environmental Management 75:65-76. Author's Keywords: governance, community, environmental policy, co-management, cross-scale linkages, the state, decision-making ACSC Keywords: natural resource management, participation, communities, networks, power, implementation, mapping
Cash, David W. 2001. "In order to aid in diffusing useful and practical information": Agricultural extension and boundary organizations. Science Technology & Human Values 26:431-453. ACSC Keywords: scale, boundary organizations, agricultural design
Cash, David W. and Moser, Susanne C. 2000. Linking global and local scales: Designing dynamic assessment and management processes. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 10:109-120. Author's Keywords: scale, science, assessment, decision-making, information, policy-making
Cash, David W., Adger, W. Neil, Berkes, Fikret, Garden, Po, Lebel, Louis, Olsson, Per, Pritchard, Lowell, and Young, Oran. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11. ACSC Keywords: scale, management, politics, social-ecological systems, comanagement, science, networks, co-management, global change, boundary, level, cross-scale dynamics, boundary organization
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
Chambers. R., Conway and G. R. 1991. "Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century," in IDS Discussion Paper, pp. 1-29. ACSC Keywords: scale, sustainable, rural livelihoods, capability, equity
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
Chernela, Janet. 2005. The politics of mediation: Local-global interactions in the Central Amazon of Brazil. American Anthropologist 107:620-631. Author's Keywords: conservation, NGOs, social movements, brazilian amazon ACSC Keywords: institutions, organizations, america, local actors, international agents, scale of agency, rhetoric of participatory management
Clarke, Susan E. 1999. "Regional and transnational regimes: Multi-level governance processes in North America and Europe," in , pp. 1-32. Boulder. ACSC Keywords: scale, governance, North America, Europe
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
Collinge, Sharon K. 2001. Spatial Ecology and Biological Conservation. Biological Conservation 100:1-2. ACSC Keywords: scale, ecology, conservation
Comber, A., Fisher, P., and Wadsworth, R. 2004. You know what land cover is but does anyone else?..an investigation into semantic and ontological confusion. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26:223-229. ACSC Keywords: scale, geomatics, remote sensing, land cover, land use
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
Conway, Janet. 2005. "The empire, the movement and the politics of scale: Considering the World Social Forum." Towards a political economy of scale: Studies in political economy conference, York University, 2005, pp. 1-18 ACSC Keywords: scale, global, social movements
Costanza, Robert. 2003. A vision of the future of science: Reintegrating the study of humans and the rest of nature. Futures 35:651-671. ACSC Keywords: scale, science, nature
Cowell, R. and Owens, S. 2004. "Governing space: Planning reform and the politics of sustainability," in Central Government and Sustainability Transition, pp. 1-21. Lincoln, UK. ACSC Keywords: scale, sustainability, sustainable, Europe, United Kingdom, land use planning
Cox, K. R. 1998. Representation and power in the politics of scale. Political Geography 17. Author's Keywords: representation, politics of scale, power ACSC Keywords: representation, politics of scale, power
Cox, K. R. 1998. Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: Looking for local politics. Political Geography 17:1-23. Author's Keywords: politics of scale, politics of space, local government ACSC Keywords: scale, state, place, politics of scale, space
Cronon, W. 1996. The trouble with wilderness - A response. Environmental History 1:47-55. ACSC Keywords: scale, historical ecology, construction of nature
Cross, Rob, Borgatti, Stephen P., and Parker, Andrew. 2001. Beyond answers: dimensions of the advice network. Social Networks 23:215-235. Author's Keywords: problem reformulation, guttman scale, advice network ACSC Keywords: knowledge management, social networks, Scaling (Social sciences), Social sciences--Network analysis
Daniels, Robert and Bassett, Thomas J. 2002. The spaces of conservation and development around Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Professional Geographer 54:481-490. Author's Keywords: scale, political ecology, Kenya, conservation territories, ethnic violence ACSC Keywords: information networks, information age, social theory, social morphology, andes