Political ecology of conflicts

Key Papers
Adams, W., and J. Hutton. 2007. People, parks and poverty: political ecology and biodiversity conservation. Conservation and Society 5:147-183. Download
Adams, W. M., and D. Hulme. 2001. If community conservation is the answer in Africa, what is the question? Oryx 35:193-200. External resource
Anderson, R. M., S. Charnley, K. Epstein, K. M. Gaynor, J. V. Martin, and A. McInturff. 2022. The socioecology of fear: a critical geographical consideration of human-wolf-livestock conflict. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien.  External resource
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Araneda, P., O. Ohrens, and J. T. Ibarra. 2021. Socioeconomic development and ecological traits as predictors of human-bird conflicts. Conservation Biology.  External resource
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Banerjee, S., and S. Sharma. 2021. En-gendering human-wildlife interactions in Northeast India: towards decolonized conservation. Journal of Political Ecology 28. Download
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Bond, J. 2014. A holistic approach to natural resource conflict: the case of Laikipia County, Kenya. Journal of Rural Studies 34:117-127. External resource
Braczkowski, A. R., C. J. O’Bryan, C. Lessmann, C. Rondinini, A. P. Crysell, S. Gilbert, M. Stringer, L. Gibson, and D. Biggs. 2023. The unequal burden of human-wildlife conflict. Communications Biology 6:182.   Download
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Darimont, C. T., P. C. Paquet, A. Treves, K. A. Artelle, and G. Chapron. 2018. Political populations of large carnivores. Conservation Biology. Download
DeMotts, R., and P. Hoon. 2012. Whose elephants? Conserving, compensating, and competing in Northern Botswana. Society & Natural Resources 25:837-851. External resource
Evans, L. A., and W. M. Adams. Elephants as actors in the political ecology of human–elephant conflict. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Download
Evans, L. A., and W. M. Adams. 2016. Fencing elephants: the hidden politics of wildlife fencing in Laikipia, Kenya. Land Use Policy 51:215-228. Download
Ferraz, K. M. P. M. d. B., S. Marchini, J. A. Bogoni, R. M. Paolino, M. Landis, R. Fusco-Costa, M. Magioli, L. P. Munhoes, B. H. Saranholi, Y. G. G. Ribeiro, J. A. d. Domini, G. S. Magezi, J. C. Z. Gebin, H. Ermenegildo, P. M. Galetti Junior, M. Galetti, A. Zimmermann, and A. G. Chiarello. 2022. Best of both worlds: combining ecological and social research to inform conservation decisions in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot. Journal for Nature Conservation 66:126146.  External resource
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Fletcher, R., K. Massarella, K. M. P. M. B. Ferraz, W. A. Kiwango, S. Komi, M. B. Mabele, S. Marchini, A. Nygren, L. T. Sandroni, P. S. Alagona, and A. McInturff. 2023. The production-protection nexus: how political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions. Global Environmental Change 82:102723.   Download
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Fry, T., A. Marino, and S. Nijhawan. 2022. ‘Killing with care’: locating ethical congruence in multispecies political ecology. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 21:226-246.   Download
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Geeraerts, C., A. Rutten, E. Cartuyvels, P. Verschelde, S. Devisscher, F. Turkelboom, P. Quataert, and J. Casaer. 2021. Wild boar in Flanders, Belgium:(dis) agreements between key stakeholders on wild boar management objectives, actions, and legal provisions. Human–Wildlife Interactions 15:15. External resource
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Gopalan, R., and S. Radhakrishna. 2022. Moving from coexistence to conflict: a political ecology perspective on human-rhesus macaque conflict in Himachal Pradesh, India. Human Ecology. External resource
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Gupta, A. C. 2013. Elephants, safety nets and agrarian culture: understanding human-wildlife conflict and rural livelihoods around Chobe National Park, Botswana. Journal of Political Ecology 20:238-254. Download
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​Harris, N. C., C. E. Wilkinson, G. Fleury, and Z. N. Nhleko. 2023. Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.   Download
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Hemminger, K., H. König, J. Månsson, S.-D. Bellingrath-Kimura, and L. Nilsson. 2022. Winners and losers of land use change: a systematic review of interactions between the world’s crane species (Gruidae) and the agricultural sector. Ecology and Evolution 12:e8719.  Download
Hohbein, R., and J. Abrams. 2022. Conservation, human-wildlife conflict, and decentralised governance: complexities beyond incomplete devolution. Conservation and Society 20:293-303.  Download
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Hsiao, E. 2022. Conviviality in disrupted socionatural landscapes ecological peacebuilding around Akagera National Park. Conservation & Society.   External resource
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Kansky, R. 2022. Unpacking the challenges of wildlife governance in community-based conservation programs to promote human–wildlife coexistence. Conservation Science and Practice n/a:e12791.  Download
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Kareri, M. 2021. Parks and people: expropriation of nature and multispecies alienation in Nthongoni, eastern Kenya. Conservation and Society 19:248-258.  External resource
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Komi, S., and A. Nygren. 2023. Bad wolves? Political ecology of responsibility and more-than-human perspectives in human–wildlife interactions. Society & Natural Resources:1-19.   Download
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Mason, T.H.E., Keane, A., Redpath, S.M. & Bunnefeld, N. 2018. The changing environment of conservation conflict: geese and farming in Scotland. J. Appl. Ecol. 55:651–662. External resource
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Margulies, J. D., and K. K. Karanth. 2018. The production of human-wildlife conflict: a political animal geography of encounter. Geoforum. External resource
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Marino, A., and V. Rodríguez. 2022. Competitive exclusion and herbivore management in a context of livestock-wildlife conflict. Austral Ecology.  External resource
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Massé, F. 2016. The political ecology of human-wildlife conflict: producing wilderness, insecurity, and displacement in the Limpopo National Park. Conservation and Society 14:100. Download
Meyer, M., and J. Börner. 2022. Rural livelihoods, community-based conservation, and human–wildlife conflict: scope for synergies? Biological Conservation 272:109666.  Download
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Neumann, R. P. 1992. Political ecology of wildlife conservation in the Mt. Meru area of Northeast Tanzania. Land Degradation & Development 3:85-98. External resource
Pettersson, H. L., C. H. Quinn, G. Holmes, S. M. Sait, and J. V. López-Bao. 2021. Welcoming wolves? Governing the return of large carnivores in traditional pastoral landscapes. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2.  Download
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Poerting, J. 2023. Infrastructure as biopolitics: fencing, categorizing and valuing animals for wolf conservation in Germany. Political Geography 105:102926.   Download
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Redpath, S. M., J. D. C. Linnell, M. Festa-Bianchet, L. Boitani, N. Bunnefeld, A. Dickman, R. J. Gutiérrez, R. J. Irvine, M. Johansson, A. Majić, B. J. McMahon, S. Pooley, C. Sandström, A. Sjölander-Lindqvist, K. Skogen, J. E. Swenson, A. Trouwborst, J. Young, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2017. Don't forget to look down – collaborative approaches to predator conservation. Biological Reviews 92:2157-2163. External resource
Redpath, S. M., J. Young, A. Evely, W. M. Adams, W. J. Sutherland, A. Whitehouse, A. Amar, R. A. Lambert, J. D. C. Linnell, A. Watt, and R. J. Gutierrez. 2013. Understanding and managing conservation conflicts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 28:100-109. External resource
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Soliku, O. 2021. Gendered impacts of conservation on rural communities in northern Ghana: implications for collaborative natural resources management. Society & Natural Resources 34:1-17. External resource
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Young, J., C. Richards, A. Fischer, L. Halada, T. Kull, A. Kuzniar, U. Tartes, Y. Uzunov, and A. Watt. 2007. Conflicts between biodiversity conservation and human activities in the central and eastern European countries. Ambio 36:545-550. External resource
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Young, J., A. Watt, P. Nowicki, D. Alard, J. Clitherow, K. Henle, R. Johnson, E. Laczko, D. McCracken, S. Matouch, J. Niemela, and C. Richards. 2005. Towards sustainable land use: identifying and managing the conflicts between human activities and biodiversity conservation in Europe. Biodiversity and Conservation 14:1641-1661. External resource
Books and book chapters
Adams, W. M. 2015. The political ecology of conservation conflicts. Pages 64-78 in J. C. Young, K. A. Wood, R. J. Gutiérrez, and S. M. Redpath, editors. Conflicts in conservation: navigating towards solutions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. External resource
Neumann, R. P. 2002. Imposing wilderness: struggles over livelihood and nature preservation in Africa. University of California Press. External resource
Robbins, P. 2012. Political ecology: a critical introduction. Wiley. External resource
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