PSAE Research Series
This new series is an outgrowth of the African Studies Center’s Program for the Study of the African Environment (PSAE). The PSAE Research Series presents the results of ongoing research in African environmental studies and reflects the varied research interests and interdisciplinary perspective of Boston University scholars and their international collaborators. This series makes the results of current research on African environmental issues available to a wide audience at a modest cost. Papers in the series are suitable for use in undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with human ecology, anthropology, environmental archaeology, environmental history, public health, resource management, and international development. The code PSAE identifies each paper for ordering purposes. All PSAE papers are $6 for PDF copies, $6 plus S+H for print copies, unless otherwise noted.
Available now:
Deposing the Malevolent Spirit: A Historical Cultural Ecology of Malaria in Northwest Ethiopia, by James C. McCann, PSAE 9 (2011)
Satellite Imagery, Landscape History, and Disease: Mapping and Visualizing the Agroecology of Malaria in Ethiopia, by Magaly Koch and James C. McCann, PSAE 8 (2010)
“Like Leaves Fallen by Wind”: Landscape, Memory, and Post-Conflict Restoration in Mozambique, 1992–2002 by Todd French, PSAE 7 (2010)
Bearing the Burdens, Reaping the Rewards: Who Benefits from Africa’s National Parks? by Kallie Szczepanski, PSAE 6 (2010)
Forest Reserves and Local Rights: German East Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro, by Robert Munson, PSAE 5 (2009)
Kings and Farmers. The Urban Development of Aksum, Ethiopia: ca. 500 BC–AD 1500, by Rodolfo Fattovich, PSAE 4 (2008)
Damming the Empire: British Attitudes on Hydropower Development in Africa, 1917–1960, by Heather Hoag, PSAE 3 (2008)
The Literature of African Environmental History: An Introduction, by Robert Munson, PSAE 2 (2007)
The Challenges of Post-Dam Environmental and Economic Rehabilitation in the Senegal River Valley, by Jeanne Koopman, PSAE 1 (2007)
History of Land Use in Africa Series
This sub-set of the PSAE Research Series was originally organized in connection with the History of Land Use Project at the African Studies Center, with support from the U.S.I.A. Office for Citizens Exchange. It reflects the research of scholars affiliated with the African Studies Center, or work that was presented there. These papers are $6.00 each (available in PDF only), and are listed here in chronological order, beginning with the most recent.
The code WP 000 identifies each paper for ordering purposes.
Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: A Preliminary Mapping, by Kate B. Showers, WP 237 (2001)
Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, by Allan Hoben, WP 236 (2001)
The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare, Tanzania, 1961—1988, by Michael Sheridan, WP 233 (2000)
Urban Areas as Environmental Interventions Part I: The Water Cycle, by Kate B. Showers, WP 226 (2000)
The Sacred Forests of North Pare, Tanzania: Indigenous Conservation, Local Politics, and Land Tenure, by Michael J. Sheridan, WP 224 (2000)
Maize and Grace: History, Corn, and Africa’s New Landscapes, 1500–1999, by James C. McCann, WP 223 (1999)
The Human Exploitation of Local Environmental Variations on the Mbulu Highlands, Northern Tanzania, 1920s–1950s, by Yusufu Qwaray Lawi, WP 221 (1999)
Roadblocks to Community Conservation in Tanzania: A Case Study from Simanjiro District, by Jim Igoe (1999)
Colonial and Post-Apartheid Water Projects in Southern Africa: Political Agendas and Environmental Consequences, by Kate B. Showers, WP 214 (1998)
A Tale of Two Forests: Narratives of Deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840–1996, by James McCann, WP 209 (1998)
Sales Contracts and Land Tenure Relations in Ankole, Western Uganda, by Simon Heck, WP 205 (1996)
Lords of the Flies: British Sleeping Sickness Policies as Environmental Engineering in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900–1950, by Kirk Arden Hoppe, WP 203 (1995)
Gully Erosion in Lesotho and the Development of Historical Environmental Impact Assessment, by Kate Showers, WP 201 (1995)
Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Kinshasa, Libreville, and Yaounde, by Theodore Trefon, WP 200 (1995)
A Narrative History of People and Forests between the Great Lakes: ca. 1000 B.C. to ca. 1500 A.D., by David Lee Schoenbrun, WP 194 (1995)
Paradigms and Politics: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Ethiopia, by Allan Hoben, WP 193 (1995).
“Human Locusts” & “The Sporting Class” Wood-Cutting and Game Hunting by White Settlers in Botswana, by Julie Croston, WP 192 (1994)
A Hundred Years of Crisis? Environment and Development Narratives in Ukambani, Kenya, by Dianne E. Rocheleau, Philip E. Steinberg, and Patricia A. Benjamin, WP 189 (1994).
French and British Colonial Forest Policies: Past and Present Implications for Côte D’Ivoire and Ghana, by Marc P.E. Parren, WP 188 (1994).
From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal, by Jesse C. Ribot, WP 187 (1994).
Deforestation History and the Ecology of Swidden Fallows in Sierra Leone, by A. Endre Nyerges, WP 185 (1994).
Early Experiences of Soil Conservation in Southern Africa: Segregated Programs and Rural Resistance, by Kate B. Showers, WP 184 (1994).
Methods in the Study of African Land Use, by Katherine Homewood, WP 182 (1994).
Planning as a Rational Act: Constructing Environmental Policy in Uganda, by David D. Gow, WP 181 (1994).
Problems of Pastoral Land Tenure in Kenya: Demographic, Economic, and Political Process among Maasai, Samburu, Boran, and Rendille, 1950–1990, by Elliot Fratkin, WP 177 (1994).
Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, by James Giblin, WP 176 (1994).
The Complementarity of Remote Sensing and Anthropology in the Study of Complex Human Ecology, by Eric Lambin and Jane Guyer, WP 175 (1994).
Historical Environmental Impact Assessment: Connecting Land Use History to Environmental Impact Assessment, by Kate B. Showers, WP 174 (1994).