Institutional change, power and conflicts in the management of common-pool resources in African floodplain ecosystems: An introduction

African Social Studies Series

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-75

  Haller, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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