Just published! Special Issue on "Conservation, Natural Resources, and Equitable Outcomes in Africa"

[David A. Sonnenfeld]

Dear Colleagues, 

Profs. Frank Matose (University of Cape Town), Lotsmart Fonjong (University of Cincinnati), and I are pleased to announce the publication of our jointly edited Special Issue on "Conservation, Natural Resources, and Equitable Outcomes in Africa," in Society & Natural Resources 38 (4, April): 

* https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/38/4?nav=tocList

Society & Natural Resources Special Issue: Conservation, Natural Resources, and Equitable Outcomes in Africa. Volume 38, Issue 4 of Society & Natural Resources www.tandfonline.com

Contents include: 

• Matose, Frank; Lotsmart Fonjong; and David A. Sonnenfeld,
  "Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa"
  
  
• Herdieckerhoff, Ida; Irmeli Mustalahti; Almeida Sitoe; and Estevao E. Chambule,
  "Uncertainty and Forest Concessions in a Globalized World: Insights into Local Access to Forest Resources in Mozambique"
  
  
• Di Marzo, Daniel; and Cristina Espinosa,
  "Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa"
  
  
• Kimaro, Michael H.; and Courtney Hughes,
  "Conditions of Conflict: Exploring Pastoralist Resettlement in Relation to African Lion Conservation"
  
  
• Abebe, Bethlehem A.; and Kelly W. Jones,
  "Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators"
  
  
• Essaw, David Wellington, et al.,
  "Governance for Sustainable Sand Mining in Two Selected Local Government Areas in the Central region of Ghana"

This is the second of two special issues published from papers presented at the virtual symposium, "Weathering Extremes: African Environmental Politics in a Destabilized World," in May 2021. That symposium was sponsored by the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC 24) of the International Sociological Association; and hosted by the Program of Advanced Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. 

Kind regards, 

David S. 

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David A. SONNENFELD, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy

Dept. of Environmental Studies

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)

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