"We had cattle and did not fish and hunt anyhow!" institutional change and contested commons in the Kafue flats floodplain, Zambia

African Social Studies Series

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 301-359

  Haller, Tobias ^a   Merten, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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