Ujamaa-policies, open-access and differential collective action: Common-pool resource management, institutional change and conflicts in the Rufiji floodplain (Tanzania)

African Social Studies Series

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-300

  Meroka, Patrick ^a  

^a Department of Social Anthropology ^*  (United States)

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