The Contested Floodplain explains how institutional change in the African floodplain wetlands of Zambia (Kafue Flats) caused the area's resource management to fail. This work combines New Institutionalism approaches (predicated on notions of power and ideology) with political ecology and findings from local ecological studies, extending its appeal to scholars in African and environmental studies. It includes an in-depth social anthropological analysis of agro-pastoral and fishermen communities and also a foreword by Dr. Elizabeth Colson.
The Contested Floodplain explains how institutional change in the African floodplain wetlands of Zambia (Kafue Flats) caused the area's resource management to fail. This work combines New Institutionalism approaches (predicated on notions of power and ideology) with political ecology and findings from local ecological studies, extending its appeal to scholars in African and environmental studies. It includes an in-depth social anthropological analysis of agro-pastoral and fishermen communities and also a foreword by Dr. Elizabeth Colson.
Tobias Haller, Ph.D in Social Anthropology University of Zurich, Switzerland (2001) is now Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He did fieldwork in Cameroon and Zambia and has specialized in economic and ecological anthropology (common pool resource management, New Institutionalism and local perception of environment, peasants and agro-pastoralist, fishermen, oil exploitation, protected areas, and community based natural resource management). He teaches courses in economic, political, and ecological anthropology on topics such as sustainable use of natural resources, environmental perception, conservation and protected areas, land tenure issues, and anthropology of mining. He has published People, Protected Areas and Global Change (NCCR Bern, 2008) and Fossil Resources, Oil Companies and Indigenous Peoples (Lit) as well as in journals such as Human Ecology, Environment and Development, Development Southern Africa, Food Policy, Human Organisation, Journal of International Development.
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Foreword: by Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley Chapter 1: Introduction: the role of institutions in the management of common pool resources Chapter 2: The Kafue Flats Ecosystem: A rich floodplain in a semi-arid environment Chapter 3: A "fierce" people. Ethnography of the Ila, Balundwe and Batwa Chapter 4: From Lozi raids to ineffective state control: the political economy of Southern Province and Zambia Chapter 5: Transformations in a pastoral commons: Institutional change of cattle and pasture management Chapter 6: We will throw the Lozi into the water" Institutional change and conflict in the fisheries Chapter 7: From hunting to poaching: Wildlife management from Common Property to de facto open access Chapter 8: Irrigation for the poor - cattle for the rich? Contesting the institutional design of the floodplain Conclusions: Institutional change, bargaining power and conflicts
Foreword: by Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley Chapter 1: Introduction: the role of institutions in the management of common pool resources Chapter 2: The Kafue Flats Ecosystem: A rich floodplain in a semi-arid environment Chapter 3: A "fierce" people. Ethnography of the Ila, Balundwe and Batwa Chapter 4: From Lozi raids to ineffective state control: the political economy of Southern Province and Zambia Chapter 5: Transformations in a pastoral commons: Institutional change of cattle and pasture management Chapter 6: We will throw the Lozi into the water" Institutional change and conflict in the fisheries Chapter 7: From hunting to poaching: Wildlife management from Common Property to de facto open access Chapter 8: Irrigation for the poor - cattle for the rich? Contesting the institutional design of the floodplain Conclusions: Institutional change, bargaining power and conflicts
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