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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

Anderson, Terry L. and Leal, Donald R. 1992. Free market versus political environmentalism. Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 15:297.

ACSC Keywords: tradeoff analysis, benefit-cost anaylsis vs. other economic analysis strategies

Bate, Paul. 2000. Changing the culture of a hospital: From hierarchy to networked community. Public Administration 78:485-512.

ACSC Keywords: anthropology, private finance, strategies, health, network organization, organizational form, professional culture, triabalism

Baxter, Jamie and Eyles, John. 1997. Evaluating qualitative research in social geography: Establishing 'rigour' in interview analysis. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 22:505-525.

Author's Keywords: methods, qualitative, evaluation, social geography

ACSC Keywords: landscape, gender relations, suffolk parish, feminism, city, reproduction, workplace, dilemmas, ontario, farmers, verification, conformability, interview strategies

Charnley, S. and Poe, M. R. 2007. Community forestry in theory and practice: Where are we now?. Annual Review of Anthropology 36:301-336.

Author's Keywords: governance, sustainability, forests, community-based forest management, forest communities

ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, natural resource management, decentralization, Mexico, protected areas, tropical forests, poverty alleviation, livelihoods, United States, developing countries, conservation strategies

Cleary, David. 2006. The questionable effectiveness of science spending by international conservation organizations in the tropics. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 20:733-738.

Author's Keywords: ecoregions, monitoring, Amazon, conservation strategies, extinction threats

Coomes, Oliver T. and Barham, Bradford L. 1997. Rain forest extraction and conservation in Amazonia. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 163:180-188.

Author's Keywords: economics, Amazon, Indigenous peoples, forest products, caboclos, market-oriented conservation

ACSC Keywords: strategies, reserves, RUBBER, TAPPERS

Goldstein, P. Z. 1999. Functional ecosystems and biodiversity buzzwords. Conservation Biology 13:247-255.

Author's Keywords: management, perspectives, species-diversity, conservation strategies, assemblages, unburned tallgrass prairie, biological integrity, sandplain grasslands, genetic diversity, naturalness

Haarstad, Havard and Floysand, Floysand. 2007. Globalization and the power of rescaled narratives: A case of opposition to mining in Tambogrande, Peru. Political Geography 26:289-308.

Author's Keywords: discourse, peru, globalization, NGOs, politics of scale, power, narratives

ACSC Keywords: scale, governance, state, politics, geographies, strategies, construction, space, resistance, REFLECTIONS

Harrington, B. 2003. The social psychology of access in ethnographic research. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32:592-625.

Author's Keywords: self-presentation, organization, strategies, access, identity, ethnography, social identity

Herod, Andrew. 1999. Reflections on interviewing foreign elites: praxis, positionality, validity, and the cult of the insider. Geoforum 30:313-327.

ACSC Keywords: politics, reflexivity, interview strategies, gender, economy, women, field, geography, feminist research, specialization, perceptions, production of knowledge, positionality

Hobson, Kersty. 2006. Enacting environmental justice in Singapore: Performative justice and the green volunteer network. Geoforum 37:671-681.

Author's Keywords: environmental justice, spatial politics, singapore, performative

ACSC Keywords: scale, sustainability, state, politics, strategies, injustice, geography, work, discourses

Kay, C. 2008. Reflections on Latin American rural studies in the neoliberal globalization period: A new rurality ?. Development and Change 39:915-943.

Author's Keywords: Mexico, strategies, pluriactivity

Levin, Simon A. 1992. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Ecology 73:1943-1967.

Author's Keywords: scale, heterogeneity, patchiness, pattern, variability

ACSC Keywords: randomly varying environments, ess germination strategies, shifting mosaic landscape, local-population size, spatial pattern, food webs, natural communities, patchy environments, multiscale sources, habitat selection

Locke, Catherine, Adger, W. Neil, and Kelly, P. Mick. 2000. Changing places: Migration's social and environmental consequences. Environment 42:24-35.

ACSC Keywords: poverty, population, strategies, economic-development, patterns, Vietnam, vulnerability, security, agenda, famine

Martens, S. 2006. Public participation with Chinese characteristics: Citizen consumers in China's environmental management. Environmental Politics 15:211-230.

Author's Keywords: policy, strategies, civil-society

Mueller-Prothmann, Tobias and Finke, Ina. 2004. "SELaKT - Social metwork analysis as a method for expert localisation and sustainable knowledge transfer." Proceedings of I-KNOW ’04, Graz, Austria, 2004

Author's Keywords: sustainability, collaboration, strategies, implementation, Social Network Analysis, communities of practice, knowledge networks, expert localisation, distributed knowledge management, knowledge sharing, applied research

Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Caro, Tim, and Msago, Omari Ayubu. 2007. The role of research in evaluating conservation strategies in Tanzania: The case of the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem. Conservation Biology 21:647-658.

Author's Keywords: comanagement, ICDP, protectionism, conservation strategies, community outreach

ACSC Keywords: protected areas, tropical biodiversity, resource use, national-park, species richness, abundance, western tanzania, pterocarpus-angolensis, small mammals, east-africa

Teh, L. C. L., Teh, L. S. L., and Chung, F. C. 2008. A private management approach to coral reef conservation in Sabah, Malaysia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17:3061-3077.

Author's Keywords: strategies, Asia, Philippines, Malaysia, fisheries, reserves, MPA, marine protected area, Sabah, coral reef, enforcement, private management, Sugud Islands Marine Conservation Area, Great Barrier Reef, Reef Gaurdian

Thomas, Frank. 2007. The behavioral ecology of shellfish gathering in Western Kiribati, Micronesia. 2: Patch choice, patch sampling, and risk. Human Ecology 35:515-526.

Author's Keywords: conservation, patch choice, patch sampling, risk-sensitive foraging, shellfish gathering, kiribati, micronesia

ACSC Keywords: population, environment, prey choice, strategies, hypothesis, hunters, energy, MODEL, optimal foraging theory

Walpole, Matt and Wilder, Lizzie. 2008. Disentangling the links between conservation and poverty reduction in practice. Fauna and Flora International, Oryx 42:539-547.

Author's Keywords: poverty, communities, livelihoods, trade-offs, conservation strategies, social impacts

Williams, Glyn and Mawdsley, Emma. 2006. Postcolonial environmental justice: Government and governance in India. Geoforum 37:660-670.

Author's Keywords: state, India, civil society, environmental justice, postcolonial, judiciary

ACSC Keywords: strategies

Yap, Helen T. 2000. The case for restoration of tropical coastal ecosystems. Ocean & Coastal Management 43:841-851.

ACSC Keywords: management, culture, strategies, system, coral-reefs, mangrove conservation, socioeconomic impacts, transplantation, rehabilitation, mortality

Zbicz, Dorothy C. 2003. "Imposing transboundary conservation: Cooperation between internationally adjoining protected areas," in Transboundary protected areas: The viability of regional conservation strategies. Edited by Goodale, U. M. and et. al., pp. 21-38. New York: Food Products Press.

Author's Keywords: biodiversity, protected areas, NGOs, ecosystems, transboundary protected areas, boundaries, transboundary conservation, international cooperation, participatory conservation, transfrontier, survey, peace parks, conservation strategies

ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, NGOs, transboundary protected areas, transboundary conservation, peace parks

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