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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melissa Leach, is a British geographer and social anthropologist. She studies sustainability and development concerns in policy-making and has a focus on the politics of science and technology of Africa. As of 2017 she was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies located on the University of Sussex campus.
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Published Works
- Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management (1999) (1640)
- Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? (2012) (1372)
- Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic. (1996) (753)
- The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment (1998) (624)
- Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research (2020) (533)
- Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (2016) (521)
- Transforming Innovation for Sustainability (2012) (478)
- Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement (2006) (425)
- Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice (2010) (380)
- Misreading the African landscape (1996) (347)
- False forest history, complicit social analysis: Rethinking some West African environmental narratives (1995) (338)
- Governing epidemics in an age of complexity: Narratives, politics and pathways to sustainability (2010) (308)
- Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa (1998) (289)
- The politics of green transformations (2015) (242)
- Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell (2007) (242)
- Environmental Entitlements: a Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change (1997) (240)
- Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management (1999) (220)
- Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures (2018) (188)
- A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study (2012) (183)
- 'MMR talk' and vaccination choices: an ethnographic study in Brighton. (2005) (182)
- Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development (2020) (176)
- Challenges to Community‐Based Sustainable Development: Dynamics, Entitlements, Institutions (1997) (170)
- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis (1994) (167)
- Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean (2003) (166)
- Where techno-science meets poverty: medical research and the economy of blood in The Gambia, West Africa. (2006) (164)
- Trees as savings and security for the rural poor. (1989) (159)
- Challenging Neo-Malthusian Deforestation Analyses in West Africa's Dynamic Forest Landscapes (2000) (158)
- Rainforest relations: Gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone (1994) (145)
- BRIEFING: EBOLA – MYTHS, REALITIES, AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE (2015) (142)
- Negotiating Environmental Change: New Perspectives from Social Science (2003) (140)
- Between social and planetary boundaries: Navigating pathways in the safe and just space for humanity (2013) (139)
- Editorial: Environmental Governance in an Uncertain World (2001) (124)
- Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability (2007) (122)
- The social and political lives of zoonotic disease models: narratives, science and policy. (2013) (117)
- Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy (2012) (115)
- Pathways to sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach (2007) (114)
- Ebola: limitations of correcting misinformation (2015) (109)
- Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society (2007) (107)
- Engaging ‘communities’: anthropological insights from the West African Ebola epidemic (2017) (106)
- Fashioned Forest Pasts, Occluded Histories? International Environmental Analysis in West African Locales (2000) (101)
- Carbon conflicts and forest landscapes in Africa (2015) (100)
- Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case-control study. (2009) (98)
- Environmental change and policy: challenging received wisdom in Africa. (1996) (98)
- Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability (2007) (95)
- Poverty and environment: priorities for research and policy (1998) (91)
- Cutting Down Trees: Gender, nutrition and agricultural change in the northern province of Zambia, 1890–1990 (1995) (90)
- Desertification. Narratives, winners & losers. (1996) (85)
- Mobilising citizens: social movement and the politics of knowledge. (2007) (82)
- Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities (1992) (82)
- Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative (2016) (80)
- Is the cultural context of MMR rejection a key to an effective public health discourse? (2006) (78)
- Contested Forests: Modern Conservation and Historical Land Use in Guinea's Ziama Reserve (1994) (77)
- Using Modelling to Disentangle the Relative Contributions of Zoonotic and Anthroponotic Transmission: The Case of Lassa Fever (2015) (76)
- PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE? LOCAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF A VACCINE TRIAL IN THE GAMBIA (2005) (75)
- Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes (2013) (74)
- Negotiating Environmental Change (2003) (73)
- Science and citizenship in a global context (2003) (71)
- Engendered Environments: Understanding Natural Resource Management in the West African Forest Zone (1991) (70)
- Manners of contestation: "citizen science" and "indigenous knowledge" in West Africa and the Caribbean (2002) (70)
- Innovation Politics Post-Rio+20: Hybrid Pathways to Sustainability? (2013) (69)
- The Ebola Crisis and Post‐2015 Development (2015) (65)
- Exploring health systems research and its influence on policy processes in low income countries (2007) (64)
- Epidemics : science, governance, and social justice (2010) (64)
- EDITORIAL: GENDER RELATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (1995) (63)
- Community-based sustainable development : consensus or conflict? (1997) (63)
- The social shaping of childhood vaccination practice in rural and urban Gambia. (2006) (61)
- New shapes to shift: war, parks and the hunting person in modern West Africa (2000) (60)
- Pathways to Sustainability in the Forest? Misunderstood Dynamics and the Negotiation of Knowledge, Power, and Policy (2008) (59)
- Trees to meet contingencies: savings and security for the rural poor (1987) (57)
- Rethinking the forest-savanna mosaic: colonial science and its relics in West Africa. (1996) (55)
- Environmental Change and Policy (2008) (55)
- Enriching the landscape: social history and the management of transition ecology in the forest–savanna mosaic of the Republic of Guinea (1996) (54)
- Infectious disease: Tough choices to reduce Ebola transmission (2014) (53)
- Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy (2009) (53)
- New therapeutic landscapes in Africa: parental categories and practices in seeking infant health in the Republic of Guinea. (2008) (53)
- Food politics and development (2020) (51)
- Social science intelligence in the global Ebola response (2015) (50)
- Editorial: Community‐Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict? (1997) (49)
- DESICCATION AND DOMINATION: SCIENCE AND STRUGGLES OVER ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN COLONIAL GUINEA (2000) (47)
- Range management science and policy: politics, polemics and pasture in southern Africa. (1996) (46)
- The political economy of One Health research and policy (2015) (44)
- A Unified Framework for the Infection Dynamics of Zoonotic Spillover and Spread (2016) (43)
- Structural drivers of vulnerability to zoonotic disease in Africa (2017) (43)
- Innovation, Sustainability and Development: A New Manifesto (2010) (42)
- Discourses, dynamics and disquiet: Multiple knowledges in science, society and development (2008) (41)
- Introduction: Science, Citizenship And Globalization (2005) (41)
- “God Made the Soil, but We Made It Fertile”: Gender, Knowledge, and Practice in the Formation and Use of African Dark Earths in Liberia and Sierra Leone (2014) (41)
- Experiencing Poverty in Africa: Perspectives from Anthropology * (2006) (40)
- Questionable links. Approaches to gender in environmental research and policy. (1998) (39)
- Integrating Gender Into Environmental Research and Policy (1996) (39)
- Women's crops in women's spaces: gender relations in Mende rice farming. (1992) (39)
- Institutions, Consensus and Conflict: Implications for Policy and Practice (1997) (38)
- Poverty and environment: priorities for research and study - an overview study, prepared for the United Nations Development Programme and European Commission (1998) (38)
- Dealing with displacement : refugee-host relations, food and forest resources in Sierra Leonean Mende communities during the Liberian influx, 1990-91 (1992) (37)
- Zoonotic diseases: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa (2017) (36)
- Re-framing Resilience: Trans-disciplinarity, Reflexivity and Progressive Sustainability – a Symposium Report (2008) (34)
- Gender and Environmental History: From Representations of Women and Nature to Gender Analysis of Ecology and Politics (1997) (34)
- Reading Forest History Backwards: The Interaction of Policy and Local Land Use in Guinea's Forest-Savanna Mosaic, 1893-1993 (1995) (34)
- The Centrality of the Social in African Farming (2005) (32)
- Epidemics and the Politics of Knowledge: Contested Narratives in Egypt’s H1N1 Response (2014) (31)
- Deforestation in Question: Dialogue and Dissonance in Ecological, Social and Historical Knowledge of West Africa. Cases From Liberia and Sierra Leone (1997) (31)
- Knowledge and use of developmental thinking about societies and families among teenagers in Argentina. (2006) (31)
- Empowering Designs: towards more progressive social appraisal of sustainability (2007) (31)
- Ruined Settlements and New Gardens: Gender and Soil-Ripening Among Kuranko Farmers in the Forest-Savanna Transition Zone (1995) (29)
- Natural Resource Management: the Reproduction and Use of Environmental Misinformation in Guinea's Forest?Savanna Transition Zone (1994) (29)
- Local disease–ecosystem–livelihood dynamics: reflections from comparative case studies in Africa (2017) (28)
- Science, Politics, and the Presidential Aids ‘Cure’ (2009) (28)
- Introduction to Special Issue: Security, Socioecology, Polity: Mande Hunters, Civil Society, and Nation-States in Contemporary West Africa (2004) (27)
- Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa (2015) (27)
- Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management (2001) (26)
- Misreading the African landscape: Society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic (1998) (25)
- Editorial: Environmental Change, Development Challenges (1991) (25)
- Local Covid-19 Syndemics and the Need for an Integrated Response (2021) (25)
- Disease outbreaks (2020) (24)
- Shifting perspectives in environmental social science (2003) (24)
- Amazonian Dark Earths in Africa (2009) (24)
- Globalism Versus Villagism: Food Security and Environmental National and International Levels (1991) (24)
- Gender Equality And Sustainable Development (2015) (23)
- Anthropogenic Dark Earths in the Landscapes of Upper Guinea, West Africa: Intentional or Inevitable? (2014) (22)
- Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non‐use agreement (2022) (20)
- Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: from framework to action, transforming challenges into opportunities (2019) (20)
- Location Gendered Experience: An Anthropologist's View from a Sierra Leonean Village (1991) (19)
- Health in a Dynamic World (2007) (19)
- Introduction: Interrogating Engaged Excellence in Research (2016) (19)
- Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Pathways of Disease and Response (2008) (19)
- Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era (2022) (19)
- Reconsidering the extent of deforestation in twentieth century West Africa (1998) (18)
- Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives. (2008) (18)
- MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy (2005) (17)
- Changing Perspectives on Forests: Science/Policy Processes in Wider Society (2002) (17)
- Biocharred Pathways to Sustainability? Triple Wins, Livelihoods and the Politics of Technological Promise (2010) (16)
- Termites, society and ecology: perspectives from West Africa (2003) (16)
- Rethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge (2021) (16)
- AIDS, Citizenship and Global Funding:A Gambian Case Study. IDS Working Paper No. 325. (2009) (16)
- Being 'with Medical Research Council': infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes (2011) (16)
- Socio-cultural Determinants of Human–Bat Interactions in Rural Ghana (2017) (15)
- Carbonising Forest Landscapes? Linking Climate Change Mitigation and Rural Livelihoods (2004) (15)
- Transforming Food Systems: The Potential of Engaged Political Economy (2019) (14)
- The social dynamics of infant immunisation in Africa : perspectives from the Republic of Guinea (2006) (14)
- Practising “biodiversity” in Guinea: nature, nation and an international convention (2003) (14)
- Centres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development (2009) (13)
- Pathways to Sustainability: Perspectives and Provocations (2011) (13)
- African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries (2004) (12)
- Childhood vaccination and society in The Gambia : public engagement with science and delivery (2004) (11)
- Local agro-ecological management and forest-savanna transitions: the case of Kissidougou, Guinea (1995) (11)
- Culturing trees: socialized knowledge in the political ecology of Kissia and Kuranko forest islands of Guinea. (1997) (11)
- Spillover or endemic? Reconsidering the origins of Ebola virus disease outbreaks by revisiting local accounts in light of new evidence from Guinea (2021) (11)
- Anthropogenic dark earths and africa: A political agronomy of research disjunctures (2012) (10)
- Precautionary approach to risk assessment (1999) (10)
- Sustainable development: A gendered pathways approach (2015) (10)
- What is green? Transformation imperatives and knowledge politics (2015) (10)
- Food security and the environment : conflict or complementarity? (1991) (10)
- CITIZENSHIP, SCIENCE AND RISK (2002) (9)
- Zoonoses: From panic to planning (2013) (9)
- MMR "choices" in Brighton : understanding public engagement with vaccination science and delivery (2004) (9)
- Putting the Politics Back into ?Public Engagement?: Participation, Mobilization and Citizenship in the Shaping of Health Services (2010) (9)
- Understanding framings and perceptions of spillover: Preventing future outbreaks of bat-borne zoonoses (2017) (9)
- Rainforest Relations (1994) (9)
- Use of Calcium Hypochlorite as a Sanitizer for Seeds Used for Sprouting: Task #2; Impact: Improved Alfalfa Decontamination Technologies (2005) (7)
- * False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis (2014) (7)
- Anxieties over Science: Engaging Vaccine Trials in The Gambia (2012) (7)
- Living with Bats: The Case of Ve Golokuati Township in the Volta Region of Ghana (2017) (7)
- Time to put Ebola in context. Interview with Dr Melissa Leach. (2010) (7)
- Indigenous soil enrichment for food security and climate change in Africa and Asia: a review. (2017) (7)
- Introduction: The Belt and Road Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities and Challenges (2019) (6)
- Practising 'biodiversity': the articulation of international, national and local science/policy in Guinea (2000) (6)
- The Limits of Rapid Response : Ebola and structural violence in West Africa (2016) (6)
- ‘Sustainable’ Timber Production and Science/Policy Processes in Trinidad (2002) (5)
- One size does not fit all: adapt and localise for effective, proportionate and equitable responses to COVID-19 in Africa (2021) (5)
- Anthropology, culture and environment (2002) (5)
- Pathways to Sustainability: Building Political Strategies (2013) (5)
- Technology, rural dynamics and pro-poor development (2008) (5)
- Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa (2022) (5)
- Reproducing locality: a critical exploration of the relationship between natural science, social science and policy in West African ecological problems (2001) (5)
- REFRAMING FOREST HISTORY (1996) (5)
- Misreading the African landscape: Introduction (1996) (5)
- Webs of Power and the Construction of Environmental Policy Problems: Forest Loss in Guinea (2020) (4)
- A New Manifesto for Innovation, Sustainability and Development – Response to Rhodes and Sulston (2010) (4)
- Practising 'Patrimony' and 'Biodiversity': The Articulation of Diverse Local, National and International Perspectives in Guinea, West Africa (2002) (4)
- Mediated health citizenships: living with HIV and engaging with the Global Fund in the Gambia (2010) (4)
- Epidemics and anthropologists (2019) (4)
- Plural Perspectives and Institutional Dynamics: Challenges for Community Forestry (2011) (3)
- RURAL DEVELOPMENT FORESTRY NETWORK WHOSE FOREST? MODERN CONSERVATION AND HISTORICAL LAND USE IN GUINEA'S ZIAMA RESERVE (3)
- Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation (2012) (3)
- Being 'with MRC': infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes (2011) (3)
- End Piece: Challenges for Social Science Research (1991) (3)
- Covid-19: Key Considerations for a Public Health Response (2020) (3)
- Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures (2012) (3)
- Accommodating dissent (2007) (3)
- Science and Citizens: Global and Local Voices (2006) (3)
- Misreading the African Landscape; Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic (1997) (3)
- Health dynamics, innovation and the slow race to make technology work for the poor (2008) (2)
- Engaging science and politics in a post-2015 framework (2013) (2)
- Hasty energy review risks failing to win public trust (2006) (2)
- 4. Trees, people and communities in Zimbabwe’s communal lands; Declarations of difference (1994) (2)
- Whose Social Forestry and Why? People, Trees and Managed Continuity in Guinea’s Forest-savanna Mosaic (1993) (2)
- Body, Body Politic and Vaccination in the UK (2012) (2)
- Engaged Excellence in Development Studies (2018) (2)
- Sustainable business organizations (2003) (2)
- Where are all the philosophers when you need them (2006) (2)
- The politics of palm oil in a Mende village (1989) (2)
- Forest Science and Forest Policy (2002) (2)
- Part 2 - Beyond Risk: Defining The Terrain - Commentary (2005) (1)
- What ’ s the policy ? Meanings , motives and the political economy of an emergent forest policy in Guinea , West Africa (2001) (1)
- Introduction: States, Markets and Society – Looking Back to Look Forward (2016) (1)
- Dealing With Displacement (1992) (1)
- Misreading the African landscape: Glossary of plant names (1996) (1)
- Misreading the African landscape: Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy (1996) (1)
- Partnerships for sustainable timber production in Trinidad: dealing with social and ecological dynamics. (2007) (1)
- States, Markets and Society – Looking Back to Look Forward (2016) (1)
- Foreword: Development Studies – Past, Present and Future (2016) (1)
- Misreading the African landscape: Titles in the series (1996) (1)
- Shaping socio-ecological and historical knowledge of deforestation in Sierra Leone and Togo (2001) (1)
- Reframing forest history, reframing forest policy (2003) (1)
- THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A DIGITAL AGE: EXPLORING IMPACTS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT (2015) (1)
- Inequality: need for data on all nations (2016) (0)
- Beyond order, beyond the human (2021) (0)
- Characterization of Soil Organic Matter from African Dark Earth (AfDE) Soils (2014) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change (1996) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions (1996) (0)
- A new innovation politics for global pathways to sustainability (2013) (0)
- Free-Book: Pathways To Health And Sustainability (2018) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Plate section (1996) (0)
- Connecting Disciplines and Engaging Societal Partners and Communities (2018) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss (1996) (0)
- Part 3 - Citizens Engaging With Science: Commentary (2005) (0)
- Consensus and Conflict Implications for Policy and Practice (2009) (0)
- Gender and Environmental History (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- Engaged Excellence - Glossary (2016) (0)
- Body, body politic and vaccination in Britain (2007) (0)
- Becoming a ‘Påople Sector’: Indian Voluntary Agencies at a Crossroads (1988) (0)
- Corrigendum (1989) (0)
- Can globalised science work for the poor? Forest perspectives from West Africa. (2005) (0)
- Relationship between demographic change and environmental productivity in Kissidougou, Guinea. (1994) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Linguistic conventions (1996) (0)
- Forests of statistics: deforestation in West Africa (2003) (0)
- Anxieties over Science: Arguing MMR in the UK (2012) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history (1996) (0)
- Statistics, policy and power (2003) (0)
- Indigenous soil enrichment for food security and climate change mitigation in Africa and Asia:a review (2017) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions (1996) (0)
- Analysing Vaccine Anxieties (2012) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Note on authorship and research collaboration (1996) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: List of references (1996) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Ecology and society in a Kuranko village (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Land Use and Natal Multimammate Mouse Abundance in Lassa Fever Endemic Villages of Eastern Sierra Leone (2019) (0)
- Engaged Excellence - Notes on Contributors (2016) (0)
- Towards a new forest–savanna ecology and history (1996) (0)
- Engaged Excellence - Full issue (2016) (0)
- Tackling Global Challenges in an Era of Disruption and Contradiction—The Changing Role of Think Tanks (2021) (0)
- Appendix: Programme of IDS Environment Programme and Rural Group Autumn Seminar Series 1990: ‘Key Issues in Environment and Development’ (1991) (0)
- Resilience Reframing Resilience : a Symposium Report (2008) (0)
- Framework for assessing the economic costs and burdens of zoonotic disease (2014) (0)
- Representatives of the Past: Trees in Historical Dispute and Socialised Ecology in the Forest Zone of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa (2021) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science (1996) (0)
- Pandemic Preparedness for the Real World: Why We Must Invest in Equitable, Ethical and Effective Approaches to Help Prepare for the Next Pandemic (2023) (0)
- Misreading the African landscape: Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography (1996) (0)
- Annals, Volume 104 Index (2014) (0)
- “God Made the Soil, but We Made It Fertile”: Gender, Knowledge, and Practice in the Formation and Use of African Dark Earths in Liberia and Sierra Leone (2014) (0)
- Glossary: States, Markets and Society – Looking Back to Look Forward (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Global Technologies, Personal Worlds (2012) (0)
- Ecology and society in a Kissi village (1996) (0)
- Epidemics and the Military: Responding to COVID-19 in Uganda (2022) (0)
- Deep and persistent soil carbon enrichment in African homegardens (2014) (0)
- ORGANIC CARBON , Rome , Italy , 21-23 March 2017 7 00 year-old indigenous African soil enrichment technique as a climate-smart global sustainable agriculture alternative (2017) (0)
- Adapting robustly to climate change (2021) (0)
- Introduction : Information , Knowledge and Power 1 (2017) (0)
- Part 4 - Participation And The Politics Of Engagement: Commentary (2005) (0)
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