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Volume 4 Number 2
April - June 2006

 
 

Contents

Special Section: New Perspectives on Conservation in Madagascar
Guest Editor: Jeffrey C. Kaufmann

Introduction: The Sad Opaqueness of the Environmental Crisis in Madagascar
Jeffrey C. Kaufmann 179
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Forest Cover, Condition, and Ecology in Human-Impacted Forests, South-Eastern Madagascar
Jane C. Ingram and Terence P. Dawson 194
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Forests and Thorns: Conditions of Change Affecting Mahafale Pastoralists in Southwestern Madagascar
Jeffrey C. Kaufmann and Sylvestre Tsirahamba 231
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Mixed Results: Conservation of the Marine Turtle and the Red-Tailed Tropicbird by Vezo Semi-Nomadic Fishers
Valérie Lilette 262
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Swidden Agriculture and Conservation in Eastern Madagascar: Stakeholder Perspectives and Cultural Belief Systems
Douglas William Hume 287
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Real and Imagined Landscapes: Land Use and Conservation in the Menabe
Clare Sandy 304
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Situating Conserving Communities in their Place: Political Economy of Kullu Devban
Sudha Vasan and Sanjay Kumar 325
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Book Reviews

GUNNEL CEDERLOF and K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN (eds.), Ecological Nationalisms: Nation, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia,
reviewed by Archana Prasad - Revisiting the politics of ecology and identity 347
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K. ULLAS KARANTH A View from the Machan: How Science can Save the Fragile Predator,
reviewed by M. D. Madhusudan and Pavithra Sankaran - Of personality, ideology and science in tiger conservation 350
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J. MARK BAKER The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya,
reviewed by Ganesh P. Shivakoti 353
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