Now there is no land: a story of ethnic migration in a protected area landscape in western Uganda

Population and Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 452-479

  Hartter, Joel ^a   Ryan, Sadie J ^b,c,d,e   MacKenzie, Catrina A ^f,g   Goldman, Abe ^b   Dowhaniuk, Nicholas ^h   Palace, Michael ^h   Diem, Jeremy E ⁱ   Chapman, Colin A ^j,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

ⁱ GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Kibale National Park; Landscape transformation; Migration; Population growth; Protected areas; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939971984     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-014-0227-y     Document Type: Article

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