Archive for 2016

Oba: Herder Warfare in East Africa - A Social and Spatial History

New book by Gufu Oba to be published by White Horse Press on 15 May 2017

Benjaminsen: Political Geography and the environment

Editorial article in 'Political Geography' by Tor A. Benjaminsen, Halvard Buhaug, Fiona McConnell, Joanna Sharp and Philip E. Steinberg

Governing the world 'as if' it counts

Article by Morten Jerven in 'Devex International Development'.

Cavanagh: Anthropos into humanitas: Civilizing violence, scientific forestry, and the ‘Dorobo question’ in eastern Africa

Article in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Jerven: Africa by numbers - Reviewing the database approach to studying African economies.

Article by Morten Jerven in the Oxford Journal 'African Affairs'.

Noragrics Siri Eriksen er en av hovedforfatterne av kapittelet om fattigdom og levekår i FNs klimarapport del 2.

Eriksen: The role of priority non-timber forest products in enhancing local adaptive capacity to climate change stresses in Kilombero district, Tanzania

Article in 'Climate and Development' by Chelestino Balamo, Suzana Augustino, Siri Eriksen and Fortunatus Makonda.

Eriksen: Forest adjacent households’ voices on their perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in Kilombero District, Tanzania

Article in Springer Plus co-authored by Siri Eriksen.

Benjaminsen: Does Climate Change Lead to Conflicts in the Sahel?

Chapter by Tor Arve Benjaminsen in the book 'The End of Desertification?'.

Heller & Vatn: The divisive and disruptive effect of a weight-based waste fee

Article in Ecological Economics by Marit Heller and Arild Vatn.

Wetlands: Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists

Nawab, Esser, et al: Technical Viability of Constructed Wetland for Treatment of Dye Wastewater in Gadoon Industrial Estate, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Article in Wetlands by Bahadar Nawab, Kjell Esser, Petter Jenssen, Ingrid Nyborg & Shams Baig.

McNeish: Extracting justice? Colombia’s commitment to mining and energy as a foundation for peace.

Article in the International Journal of Human Rights by John-Andrew McNeish, to be printed as part of special edition later this year.

Gómez-Baggethun: Towards an Urban Resilience Index - A Case Study in 50 Spanish Cities

Article in 'Sustainability' co-authored by Erik Gómez-Baggethun.

Thorkildsen: ‘Land yes, dam no!’ Justice-seeking strategies by the anti-dam movement in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil

Article by Kjersti Thorkildsen in the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Lie: Integrating small-scale dairy farmers into school milk programmes

Proceedings from FAO sessions at the IFAMA World Forum, South Africa

Grimsby & Eik: The prospect of biogas among small-holder dairy goat farmers in the Uluguru mountains, Tanzania

Article in the 'African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development' by Grimsby, L.K., Gulbrandsen, L., Eik, L.O., Msalya, G. & Kifaro, G.C.

Petursson & Vedeld: Rhetoric and reality in protected area governance - Institutional change under different conservation discourses in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda

Article by Jon Geir Petursson and Pål Vedeld in 'Ecological Economics'.

Comparisons on a speculative basis are not very informative.

Morten Jerven writes about economic historian and Nobel prize-winner Robert Fogel's approach to counterfactual scenarios in his latest column in 'Klassekampen'

Cavanagh: Resilience, class, and the antifragility of capital

Article in Resilience by Noragric PhD Fellow Connor Cavanagh

Gómez-Baggethun: Home Garden Ecosystem Services Valuation through a Gender Lens - A Case Study in the Catalan Pyrenees

Article in Sustainability by Laura Calvet-Mir, Hugh March, Daniel Corbacho-Monné, Erik Gómez-Baggethun and Victoria Reyes-García

Old mountain pass from Aurland to Lærdal (above the Lærdalstunnel), view over Aurland

Eik: Seeing Northern European Fjord and Mountain Agriculture Through Farmers' Eyes - A Critical Step in Promoting Sustainability

Article in Mountain Research and Development by Alberto Bernués, Morten Clemetsen and Lars Olav Eik.

Bekele et al: State-Society Relations in Ethiopia: A Political-Economy Perspective of the Post-1991 Order

Article in Social Sciences by Yeshtila Wondemeneh Bekele, Darley Kjosavik & Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam.

Wagagai, the highest peak of Mount Elgon, Uganda

Vedeld, Cavanagh, et al: The Political Economy of Conservation at Mount Elgon, Uganda

Article by Pål Vedeld, Connor Cavanagh, Jon Geir Petursson, Charlotte Nakakaawa, Ricarda Moll & Espen Sjaastad in Conservation & Society.

Samndong: An Appraisal of Village Level Associations for REDD+ Implementation in Buya 1, Bikoro Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Chapter in Bobineau & Gieg (Eds) 2016. 'The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Problems, Progress and Prospects' by Raymond Achu Samndong

Cavanagh: A review of the social impacts of neoliberal conservation - Formations, inequalities, contestations

Article by George Holmes and Connor Cavanagh in Geoforum.

Divon: Police Reform and Power in Post Conflict Societies

Article by Shai Divon in the European Journal of Policing Studies.

Studying Africa by numbers can be misleading. What can be done about it?

Article in The Conversation by Morten Jerven.

Gómez-Baggethun: Resilience of small-scale societies - a view from drylands

Article co-authored by Erik Gómez-Baggethun in Ecology and Society.

Eik: Climate change adaptation in vulnerable crop and livestock production systems in Mgeta, Tanzania

Article by Z.C. Nziku, L.J. Asheim, L.O. Eik, D. Mwaseba and G.C. Kifaro in the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development.

Jerven: Discrepancies - Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ?

Article by Morten Jerven in the 'Journal of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies'.

Gómez-Baggethun: Four new articles

In 'Ecology and Society', 'Environmental Science & Policy' and 'Land Use Policy'

Moshy & Bryceson: Seeing Through Fishers’ Lenses - Exploring Marine Ecological Changes Within Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania

Article by Victoria Moshy and Ian Bryceson in 'Sage Open'

Eriksen: Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

Advanced review co-authored by Siri Eriksen in 'Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change'.

Mehta: Dianne Rocheleau - The Feminist Political Ecology Legacy and Beyond

Chapter by Lyla Mehta in: Harcourt. W. (ed.) 2016. 'The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development', Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. 660pp.

Haug & Synnevåg: If technology is the answer, what does it take?

Article by Ruth Haug, Joseph P. Hella, Susan Nchimbi-Msolla, Dismas L. Mwaseba & Gry Synnevåg in 'Development in Practice'.

Derman: Review of 'The Development State - Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania' by Maia Green.

Book review by Bill Derman in 'American Ethnologist'

Derman: Review of 'Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa' by Carola Lentz

Book review by Bill Derman in 'American Anthropologist'.

Benjaminsen: Review of 'Give a Man a Fish' by James Ferguson

Book review by Tor Arve Benjaminsen in 'Bistandaktuelt'.

Benjaminsen: Doctoral Thesis Review.

Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Joseph Awetori Yaro and Arnt Fløysand review Festus Boamah's PhD thesis on biofuels and land politics in Ghana. Published in the Norwegian Journal of Geography.

Stuvøy: Book Review

Can we understand Russia by focusing on President Putin and power alone? Kirsti Stuvøy discusses this and broader analytical questions on Russia's international relations in her review of the book 'Russernes drømme. Om det nye Russlands selvforståelse – og Vestens misforståelser' in 'Nordisk Østforum'.

Lenaerts: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants from degraded dry afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia - Species, uses and conservation challenges

Article by Kidane Giday, Lutgart Lenaerts, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Gidey Yirga and Bart Muys in the Journal of Herbal Medicine.

Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen conducting fieldwork in Finnmark

Ivsett Johnsen: Land-use conflicts between reindeer husbandry and mineral extraction in Finnmark, Norway - Contested rationalities and the politics of belonging

Article in 'Polar Geography' by Noragric PhD Fellow Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen.

Divon: Gender Based Violence and Access to Justice - The case of Ganta, Liberia

NUPI Working Paper by Shai Divon, T. Debey Sayndee and Morten Bøås

Grimsby & Treiber: Multiple biomass fuels and improved cook stoves from Tanzania assessed with the Water Boiling Test

Article in 'Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments' by Lars Kåre Grimsby, Hassan Mtoro Rajabu & Michael Treiber.

Selemani & Eik: The effects of concentrate supplementation on growth performance and behavioral activities of cattle grazed on natural pasture.

Short Communications article by Ismail Saidi Selemani and Lars Olav Eik in Tropical Animal Health and Production.

Westengen: The State of Food Security - From Availability, Access and Rights to Food Systems Approaches

Article in 'Forum for Development Studies' by Ola Westengen and SUM's Dan Banik.

Mehta: Sustainable development - A gendered pathways approach

Chapter by Melissa Leach and Lyla Mehta in the book 'Gender Equality and Sustainable Development (Pathways to Sustainability)'.

Hongslo: An ecology of difference. Fence-line contrast photographs as scientific models in ecology.

Article in the 'Journal of Political Ecology' by Noragric PhD alumna Eirin Hongslo.

Benjaminsen: Samisk reindrift - Norske myter

Book edited by Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Inger Marie Gaup Eira & Mikkel Nils Sara with chapters co-authored by Benjaminsen, Espen Sjaastad, Andrei Marin and Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen. Published in Norwegian by 'Fagbokforlaget'.