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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

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

Alfini, Naomi and Chambers, Robert. 2007. Words count: Taking a count of the changing language of British aid. Development in Practice 17:492-504.

Author's Keywords: aid, Governance and Public Policy, Western Europe

ACSC Keywords: Europe, economic development, economic trends, POLICY sciences, political planning, GOVERNMENT policy, Intitutional ethnography, language

Brockington, Daniel, Igoe, Jim, and Schmidt-Soltau, Kai. 2006. Conservation, human rights, and poverty reduction. Conservation Biology 20:250-252.

Author's Keywords: protected areas, environmentalism, human rights, Environmental protection, Indigenous peoples, Environmental sciences, CONSERVATIONISTS, POPULATION biology, PUBLIC lands

Chandhoke, Neera. 2007. Civil society. Development in Practice 17:607-614.

Author's Keywords: civil society, aid, SE Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and CIS

ACSC Keywords: Authoritarianism, POLICY sciences, political planning, LANGUAGE & languages, PUBLIC sphere, STATE power, POLITICAL systems

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

Fischhoff, Baruch. 1991. Value elicitation: Is there anything in there?. American Psychologist 46:835-847.

ACSC Keywords: value elicitation in social sciences, Personal Values, Social Sciences

Hajer, Maarten. 2003. Policy without Polity: Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void. Policy Sciences 36(2):175-196.

Author's Keywords: decision making, intervention, POLICY sciences, political planning, social sciences--philosophy, modernism

ACSC Keywords: values and ethics

Lane, Marcus B. and Corbett, Tony. 2005. The Tyranny of localism: Indigenous participation in community-based environmental management. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 7:141-159.

Author's Keywords: environmental management, Environmental protection, Indigenous peoples, Australia, Environmental sciences, ENVIRONMENTAL engineering, COMMUNITY power, LOCALISM (Political science), localism, community-based environmental management

Luke, Timothy W. 1999. "Environmentality as green governmentality," in Discourses of the environment. Edited by Darier, Eric, pp. xii, 276. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.

ACSC Keywords: governance, environmentalism, North America, United States, green, Environmental sciences, Foucault, Michel

McCarthy, James and Hague, Euan. 2004. Race, nation, and nature: The cultural politics of "Celtic" identification in the American West. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94:387-408.

Author's Keywords: ecology, nature, United States, environmental politics, Race, Ethnology, life sciences, New Mexico, Celtic

Princen, Thomas and Finger, Matthias. 1994. "Introduction," in Environmental NGOs in world politics: Linking the local and the global. Edited by Princen, Thomas and Finger, Matthias, pp. xiv, 262. London ; New York: Routledge.

ACSC Keywords: environmental policy, non-governmental organizations, etc, Environmental sciences Societies, Environment Conservation Politics

Satterfield, Terre and Kalof, Linda. 2005. "Environmental values: An Introduction," in The Earthscan reader in environmental values, pp. xxi-xxxiii. London ; Sterling, VA: Earthscan.

Author's Keywords: Environmental sciences, ENVIRONMENTAL ethics, ENVIRONMENTAL responsibility

Sörlin, Sverker. 2009. Narratives and counter-narratives of climate change: North Atlantic glaciology and meteorology, c.1930-1955. Journal of Historical Geography 35:237-255.

Author's Keywords: climate change, Environmental sciences, glaciology, meteorology, field science, cold war science, Hans Ahlmann, Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Seddon, David. 1993. "Anthropology and appraisal: The preparation of two IFAD pastoral development projects in Niger and Mali," in Practising development: Social science perspectives. Edited by Pottier, Johan, pp. ix, 222. London ; New York: Routledge.

ACSC Keywords: applied anthropology, Social sciences Methodology, Community development Case studies, Economic development programs Case studies

Smith, Estellie M. 1996. "Public policy, sciencing, and managing the future," in Naked science: Anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge. Edited by Nader, Laura, pp. xvi, 318. New York: Routledge.

ACSC Keywords: management, policy, knowledge, science, fisheries, decision-making, Anthropology Philosophy, Science Philosophy, Science Social aspects, Sociology of, Power (Social sciences)

Soeftestad, Lars T. and Kaswan, Prakash. 2004. "CBNRM Net: From managing natural resources to managing ecosystems, knowledge and people," in Environmental online communication, Advanced information and knowledge processing. Edited by Scharl, Arno, pp. 235-250. New York: Springer.

Author's Keywords: Environmental sciences Computer network resources, Environmental sciences Databases, Information storage and retrieval systems Environmental sciences

Soulé, Michael E. 1995. "The social siege of nature," in Reinventing nature? : responses to postmodern deconstruction. Edited by Soulé, Michael E. and Lease, Gary, pp. xvii, 186. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

ACSC Keywords: deconstruction, human ecology, nature, critique, postmodernism, postmodern, Environmental sciences Philosophy, Philosophy of nature

Standing, Guy. 2007. Social protection. Development in Practice 17:511-522.

Author's Keywords: Governance and Public Policy, Social Sector

ACSC Keywords: PUBLIC administration, POLICY sciences, political planning, LANGUAGE & languages, TERMS & phrases, DEFINITIONS, SOCIAL security

Stone, Diane. 2002. Using knowledge: The dilemmas of 'bridging research and policy'. Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education 32:285-296.

ACSC Keywords: research, knowledge management, POLICY sciences

Stringer, Lindsay C., Dougill, Andrew J., Fraser, Evan, Hubacek, Klaus, Prell, Christina, and Reed, Mark S. 2006. Unpacking "participation" in the adaptive management of social--ecological systems: A critical review. Ecology & Society 11:719-740.

Author's Keywords: ecology, participation, adaptive management, environmental management, social learning, Environmental sciences, Stakeholder Involvement, democratic governance, adaptive natural resource management

Toman, Michael A. 1994. Economics and `sustainability': Balancing trade-offs and imperatives. Land Economics 70:399.

ACSC Keywords: sustainable development, environmental policy, economics, economic development, Environmental sciences, ECONOMETRIC models

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2001. The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization. Current Anthropology 42:125-138.

Author's Keywords: anthropology, globalization, nation-state, anthropologists, Power (Social sciences), Ethnology, PUBLIC administration, STATE power, POLITICAL anthropology

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2001. The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization. Current Anthropology 42:125-138.

Author's Keywords: anthropology, globalization, nation-state, anthropologists, Power (Social sciences), Ethnology, PUBLIC administration, STATE power, POLITICAL anthropology

Turner, Terisa and Brownhill, Leigh. 2004. We want our land back: gendered class analysis, the second contradiction of capitalism and social movement theory. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15:21-40.

Author's Keywords: globalization, social movements, capitalism, World politics, Power (Social sciences), international relations

Turner, Terisa and Brownhill, Leigh. 2004. We want our land back: Gendered class analysis, the second contradiction of capitalism and social movement theory. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15:21-40.

ACSC Keywords: globalization, social movements, capitalism, World politics, Power (Social sciences), international relations

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