Lands At Risk In The Third World

Peter D. Little is senior research associate at the Institute for Development Anthropology. Michael M Horowitz is director of the Institute for Development Anthropology and professor of anthropology at SUNY-Binghamton.

• Monographs in Development Anthropology -- Foreword -- Introduction: Social Science Perspectives on Land, Ecology, and Development -- Models of Resource Management -- Labor Scarcity and Ecological Change -- The “Political Ecology” of Amazonia -- Insiders and Outsiders in Baluchistan: Western and Indigenous Perspectives on Ecology and Development -- Monitoring Fertility Degradation of Agricultural Lands in the Lowland Tropics1 -- The Role of the State -- The Political Economy of Desertification in White Nile Province, Sudan1 -- Impact of Fuelwood Use on Environmental Degradation in the Sudan1 -- Bringing Land Back In: Changing Strategies to Improve Agricultural Production in the West African Sahel1 -- Unequal Exchange: The Dynamics of Settler Impoverishment and Environmental Destruction in Lowland Bolivia1 -- Changing Rights to Land and Other Resources -- Land Use Conflicts in the Agricultural/Pastoral Borderlands: The Case of Kenya -- Ecology and Land Use Changes in the Semiarid Zone of the Sudan -- The Politics of Lands at Risk in a Philippine Frontier1 -- Lands at Risk, People at Risk: Perspectives on Tropical Forest Transformations in the Philippines -- Local Management Strategies -- Diversity and Change in Andean Agriculture1 -- Intensification and Degradation in the Agricultural Systems of the Peruvian Upper Jungle: The Upper Huallaga Case1 -- The Development Potential of the Guinea Savanna: Social and Ecological Constraints in the West African “Middle Belt”1 -- Rehabilitation Efforts and Household Production Strategies: The New Halfa Agricultural Scheme in Eastern Sudan -- The Local Impact of Centralized Irrigation Control in Pakistan: A Sociocentric Perspective1 -- Conservation and Society in Nepal: Traditional Forest Management and Innovative Development1