Tor A. Benjaminsen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tor A. Benjaminsen is a Norwegian human geographer. He is a professor of international environmental and development studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Career He earned his cand.scient. degree in resource geography and landscape ecology at the University of Oslo in 1988 and his Ph.D. in geography and development studies at Roskilde University in 1998.
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- ADVANCING A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES (2001) (805)
- Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania (2012) (356)
- Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel? (2012) (225)
- Formalisation of land rights: Some empirical evidence from Mali, Niger and South Africa (2009) (199)
- THE KILOSA KILLINGS: POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF A FARMER–HERDER CONFLICT IN TANZANIA (2009) (195)
- States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World (2006) (174)
- Does Supply-Induced Scarcity Drive Violent Conflicts in the African Sahel? The Case of the Tuareg Rebellion in Northern Mali (2008) (170)
- Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park (2014) (160)
- Farmer–herder conflicts, pastoral marginalisation and corruption: a case study from the inland Niger delta of Mali (2009) (142)
- Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (130)
- Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013) (121)
- Land Reform, Range Ecology, and Carrying Capacities in Namaqualand, South Africa (2006) (117)
- Natural Resource Management, Paradigm Shifts, and the Decentralization Reform in Mali (1997) (113)
- Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance (2013) (111)
- Why do pastoralists in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation (2019) (111)
- Securing Land Rights in Africa (2003) (108)
- The road to deforestation: An assessment of forest loss and its causes in Basho Valley, Northern Pakistan (2005) (92)
- Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa (2005) (92)
- The Death of an Elephant: Conservation Discourses Versus Practices in Africa (2010) (91)
- Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania (2015) (89)
- Formalisation and Informalisation of Land and Water Rights in Africa: An Introduction (2002) (89)
- Power theories in political ecology (2018) (89)
- One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel (2008) (84)
- Fuelwood, Timber and Deforestation in the Himalayas (2004) (82)
- Green economy, Scandinavian investments and agricultural modernization in Tanzania (2018) (76)
- Guerrilla agriculture? A biopolitical guide to illicit cultivation within an IUCN Category II protected area (2015) (74)
- The population–agriculture–environment nexus in the Malian cotton zone (2001) (72)
- Orthodoxies' Discussed on the Basis of Field Data from the Gourma Region in Mali (1993) (66)
- Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD (2017) (58)
- Speaking Power to “Post-Truth”: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism (2019) (55)
- Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens (2020) (54)
- Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities (2017) (53)
- Lessons from Malawi's experience with fisheries co-management initiatives. (2002) (50)
- Misreading the Arctic landscape: A political ecology of reindeer, carrying capacities, and overstocking in Finnmark, Norway (2015) (50)
- Race for the Prize: Land Transactions and Rent Appropriation in the Malian Cotton Zone (2002) (49)
- A critical political ecology of cotton and soil fertility in Mali (2010) (48)
- Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania (2020) (48)
- Is there a fuelwood crisis in rural Mali? (1997) (45)
- Contested resources: challenges to the governance of natural resources in Southern Africa. Papers from the International Symposium, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 18-20 October 2000. (2002) (40)
- Qu'est-ce que la « political ecology » ? (2009) (37)
- Between Global Interests and Local Needs: Conservation and Land Reform in Namaqualand, South Africa (2008) (36)
- Understanding traditionalist opposition to modernization: narrative production in a norwegian mountain conflict (2008) (33)
- Land reform in Namaqualand: Poverty alleviation, stepping stones and economic units (2001) (32)
- Political ecology of tiger conservation in India: Adverse effects of banning customary practices in a protected area (2018) (30)
- Formalising Land Tenure in Rural Africa (2002) (30)
- Seeing like the state or like pastoralists? Conflicting narratives on the governance of Sámi reindeer husbandry in Finnmark, Norway (2015) (30)
- Grounding governance: power and meaning in natural resource management. (2002) (29)
- Where to draw the line: Mapping of land rights in a South African commons (2008) (27)
- Politics, property and production in the West African Sahel: understanding natural resources management. (2001) (26)
- Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands (2021) (24)
- Enclosing the land: Cotton, population growth and tenure in Mali (2002) (24)
- The art of governing and everyday resistance: “rationalization” of Sámi reindeer husbandry in Norway since the 1970s (2017) (23)
- Bois-énergie, déboisement et sécheresse au Sahel : le cas du Gourma malien (1996) (22)
- Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses (2016) (22)
- Environnement, discours et pouvoir (2012) (21)
- From Desiccation to Global Climate Change: A History of the Desertification Narrative in the West African Sahel, 1900-2018 (2019) (21)
- Community fencing in open rangelands: a case study of community self-empowerment in Eastern Namibia. (2002) (20)
- Myths of Timbuktu : From African El Dorado to Desertification (2004) (20)
- Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (2021) (19)
- Neoliberal Forest Reform in Mali: Adverse Effects of a World Bank “Success” (2013) (18)
- The emerging formalisation agenda and some empirical evidence from Africa (2006) (17)
- Women's Land Rights in Tanzania and South Africa: A Human Rights Based Perspective on Formalisation (2005) (16)
- Savannas and Dry Forests. Linking People with Nature. Jayalaxshmi Mistry and Andrea Berardi(eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. 274 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4507-X (2008) (15)
- Does Climate Change Lead to Conflicts in the Sahel (2016) (14)
- Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya’s Conservancy Frontier (2020) (14)
- Turning Landscapes into ‘Nothing’: A Narrative on Land Reform in Namibia (2002) (13)
- Tuareg notions of space and place in Northern Mali. (2001) (13)
- Political Ecologies of Environmental Degradation and Marginalization (2015) (12)
- Community-public-private partnerships in CBNRM: the real challenges? (2002) (12)
- The governance of nature conservation in South Africa. (2002) (11)
- Questioning some assumptions about land tenure. (2001) (11)
- Conceptualising resilience in Norwegian Sámi reindeer pastoralism (2015) (11)
- Nordic political ecologies (2015) (10)
- The Malian cotton zone: economic success, but environmental failure? (2001) (10)
- Power, pastures and politics: boreholes and decentralization of local resource management in Northern Senegal. (2001) (10)
- Productivity beyond density: A critique of management models for reindeer pastoralism in Norway (2020) (10)
- Agricultural expansion and animal husbandry in a West African Savannah environment. (2001) (9)
- SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL THEORIES AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH. COMPARING SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTS IN ACTION (2015) (8)
- Fishing at home and abroad - access to waters in Niger's Central Delta and the effects of work migration. (2001) (8)
- Co-management as co-governance: prospects for community-based natural resource management in Southern Africa (2002) (7)
- Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and Charles Zerner (2007) (7)
- The dynamics of inequality in the Sahel: agricultural productivity, income diversification, and food security among the Fulani Rimaïbe in northern Burkina Faso. (2001) (7)
- Mathieu versus de Soto: A Comment (2003) (7)
- Exploring new understandings of resource tenure and reform in the context of globalisation (2007) (7)
- Discourses everywhere and not a drop to drink: water as a lens on environmental security. (2002) (7)
- Transfrontier conservation areas: a framework for managing peace and nature in Southern Africa? (2002) (7)
- Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel (2010) (6)
- Accessing natural resources: implications for sustainable management and livelihoods. (2002) (6)
- Changes in Land-Use Governance in an Urban Era (2014) (5)
- Local institutions and sustainable land-use management in land redistribution projects in rural KwaZulu-Natal. (2002) (5)
- Political geography in the impasse (2018) (5)
- Political Ecology (2019) (5)
- Inside government extension agencies: a comparison of four agencies in the Sikasso Region of Mali. (2001) (5)
- According to need, greed or politics - redistribution of fishing rights within South Africa's new fisheries policy. (2002) (5)
- Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management: Frances Cleaver (2012) (5)
- Conservation and sustainable livelihoods in Bokong and Tsehlanyane in Lesotho. (2002) (5)
- Depicting decline: images and myths in environmental discourse analysis (2020) (5)
- Introduction à la political ecology (2012) (5)
- ‘Except-Africa’ (2000) (4)
- Sharing products or power? Intentions, meanings and approaches to community involvement in forest management in East and Southern Africa. (2002) (4)
- Conservation: Beyond population growth (2019) (4)
- The contribution of communal rangelands to rural livelihoods in the Maluti district: valuation of fuelwood. (2002) (4)
- Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice (2021) (4)
- Debating 'environment' in South Africa's Wild Coast: land use, livelihoods and development. (2002) (3)
- Changements climatiques et conflits au Sahel (2012) (3)
- Preconditions for implementation of co-management in small-scale fisheries in South Africa. (2002) (3)
- Géographie Transactions foncières et appropriation de la rente foncière dans la zone cotonnière du Mali (2015) (3)
- Virtual Forum introduction: Environmental limits, scarcity and degrowth (2021) (3)
- Boamah, Festus. 2015. Biofuels and Land Politics: Connecting the Disconnects in the Debate about Livelihood Impacts of Jatropha Biofuel Land Deals in Ghana (2016) (3)
- Discours et pratiques de conservation en Afrique (2012) (3)
- Introduction à lapolitical ecology (2012) (3)
- Formalising Land Tenure in Rural Africa Security of Land Tenure Papers and Unleashing Grass-Root Investment for Rural Development: Some Comments (2002) (3)
- Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition (2020) (3)
- Building spatial concepts for community-based catchment management: planning for LandCare in the Kat River Valley. (2002) (3)
- Political geography in and for 2020 (2020) (3)
- Making time in 2020 (2021) (2)
- The Sahel and the climate security debate (2012) (2)
- REDD og norsk klimakolonialisme i Tanzania (2018) (2)
- Socio-ecological theories and empirical research (SETER): learning from an interaction process (2010) (2)
- Fuelwood, deforestation and drought in the Sahel: a case study from the Gourma region, Mali. (1996) (2)
- Making maps, making claims: the politics and practices of visualisation in environmental governance (2021) (1)
- Politics, development and custom: strategies of evasion in Yatenga, Burkina Faso. (2001) (1)
- History, continuity and change in Fulani resource regimes. (2001) (1)
- Degradation, Data Reliability and Values (1997) (1)
- Institutional evolution in water resources management: lessons from the Zimbabwean water sector reform programme. (2002) (1)
- Water, Labour and Politics: Land-Use Dynamics along the Niger River in Mali (2016) (1)
- Review of The Arid Lands. History, Power, Knowledge by Diana K. Davis (2017) (1)
- Discourses and Narratives on Environment and Development: The Example of Bioprospecting (2021) (1)
- Towards community-based forest management in North West province: current practices and future challenges. (2002) (1)
- Climate Change, Scarcity and Conflicts in the Sahel (2021) (1)
- Sharing South Africa's water: uncovering challenges for development through strategic environmental assessment. (2002) (1)
- Politics, policy and livelihoods in the Kalahari. (2002) (1)
- Natural resources management: lessons on social forestry in Lesotho. (2002) (1)
- Environmental Governance in the South – Discourses/Science/Policies (2011) (1)
- WITHDRAWN: A critical political ecology of soil fertility in the Malian cotton zone (2006) (1)
- Population densities and agro-ecological potential: a critique of regional-scale analyses from Kenya and South Africa. (2002) (1)
- Informal transactions and emerging land markets in Africa. (2001) (0)
- The SETER project: Socio-ecological theories and empirical research (2010) (0)
- Political Ecology on Pandora (2021) (0)
- Money for nature: globalisation and renewable natural resource management. (2002) (0)
- The risks of ecological security (2022) (0)
- Common property and pastoralism in the Sahel. What is the future for Sahelian pastoralists (2001) (0)
- Stocktake and Ways Forward (2021) (0)
- Authors (2005) (0)
- Revue du Programme de I' Aide de I'Eglise Norvegienne (AEN)-Mali (1997) (0)
- Authors (2003) (0)
- Climate-driven risks to peace over the 21st century (2022) (0)
- Population Growth, Markets and Sustainable Land-Use in Africa (2021) (0)
- Struggles over Resilience and Sámi Reindeer Pastoralism in Norway (2016) (0)
- Climate Mitigation Choices: Reducing Deforestation in the Global South Versus Reducing Fossil Fuel Production at Home (2021) (0)
- Conservation Discourses Versus Practices (2021) (0)
- Theoretical Influences and Recent Directions (2021) (0)
- Community-company forestry partnerships: a popular trend or a true devolution of authority to local communities? The case of South Africa. (2002) (0)
- Policy versus praxis: problems facing the water sector in South Africa. (2002) (0)
- Scrambling for Land in Tanzania: Process of Formalisation and Legitimisation of Land Rights: Rie Odgaard (2012) (0)
- The Insect state: development, politics and capital in African desert locust control (2010) (0)
- Gender and Power: Feminist Political Ecologies (2021) (0)
- Cost-benefit analysis as a policy tool for natural resource management in rural communities: case study evidence from Sekhukhuneland, Limpopo province. (2002) (0)
- Presenting the Sahel (1995) (0)
- Pastoralists and the State (2021) (0)
- SELLING LIKE A STATE (2015) (0)
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