PSAE Research Series
This new working paper 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 conducted by scholars affiliated with Boston University and those collaborating in research with Boston University personnel.The code RS 000 identifies each paper for ordering purposes. Prices vary.

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Source: University of Maryland, Dept. of Geography.
Available now:
The Challenges of Post-Dam Environmental and Economic Rehabilitation in the Senegal River Valley
by Jeanne Koopman, RS 1 (2007) ($6.00)
The Literature of African Environmental History: An Introduction
by Robert Munson, RS 2 (2007) ($6.00)
Forthcoming papers include:
The Agroecology of Infectious Disease: Investigating the Relationship Between Maize Cultivation and Malaria Transmission in Highland Ethiopia
by James McCann, Asnakew Kebede, Anthony Kiszewski, Richard Pollack, and Rebecca Robich
Reconstructing the Evolution of Late Holocene Cultural Landscapes in Western Tigray, Ethiopia
by Magaly Koch, Thomas Schmid, and Michael DiBlasi
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. The papers are $4.00 each 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, 19611988, 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, 15001999,
by James C. McCann, WP 223 (1999)
The Human Exploitation
of Local Environmental Variations on the Mbulu Highlands,
Northern Tanzania, 1920s1950s, 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
PostApartheid 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).
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