Tracking wildebeest, locating knowledge: Maasai and conservation biology understandings of wildebeest behavior in Northern Tanzania

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-331

  Goldman, Mara ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 34248149966     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d0505     Document Type: Article

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