How fit turns into misfit and back: Institutional transformations of pastoral commons in African floodplains

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Haller, Tobias ^a   Fokou, Gilbert ^a   Mbeyale, Gimbage ^b   Meroka, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Soikoine University   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

African floodplains; Governance; Institutional change; Institutional fit; New institutionalism; Pastoral commons

Indexed keywords

COMMON LAND; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FLOODPLAIN; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; PASTORALISM; POST-COLONIALISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CAMEROON; TANZANIA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84876755980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05510-180134     Document Type: Article

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