No space for participation: Pastoralist narratives and the etiology of park-herder conflict in southeastern Niger

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 345-363

  Turner, M D ^a   Batterbury, S P J ^b  

^a Sahelian Centre   (Niger)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere reserve; Development narratives; Fulani; Grazing ecology; ICDP; Land use change; Livestock mobility; Mixed farming; Participatory development; Protected areas; Sahel; State local relations; Transhumance; West Africa; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

LAND USE CONFLICT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PASTORALISM; PROTECTED AREA;

EID: 0032747188     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199907/08)10:4<345::AID-LDR358>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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