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Daniel Brockington Education and Qualifications 1993-98 PhD titled: ‘Land Loss and Livelihoods. The impacts of eviction on pastoralists moved from the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Department of Anthropology, UCL. 1994 Certificate in Swahili, Class I, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1992-93 Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Oxford. 1989-92 BA (Hons) Geography, Class I, University of Oxford. Current Employment 2005+ Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. University Lecturer 2005; Senior Lecturer 2007; Reader 2010. Previous Employment 2002-5 Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Lecturer at St Hugh’s College. 2001-2 Research Associate at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Research Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography and Dean at New Hall. 1998-01 British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Research Fellow at New Hall. 1994-97 Research Assistant at the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Visiting Fellowships 2008 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India (Jan ’08- April ’08). 2007 Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. (January ’07 – May ’07). 2006 Resource Management in Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. (October ’06 – January ’07). 2005 Environmental Science Programme, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. (January – April ’05). Membership of Academic and Professional Bodies Society of Conservation Biology (Member of the Social Science Working Group) Royal African Society Development Studies Association World Commission on Protected Areas; Commission on Social, Economic and Environmental Policy (both commissions of the World Conservation Union, IUCN) Websites http://celebrityanddevelopment.woprdpress.com http://environmentalismandconservation.wordpress.com http://studyinggreen.wordpress.com

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Daniel Brockington

Education and Qualifications 1993-98 PhD titled: ‘Land Loss and Livelihoods. The impacts of eviction on pastoralists moved

from the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Department of Anthropology, UCL. 1994 Certificate in Swahili, Class I, School of Oriental and African Studies.

1992-93 Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Oxford. 1989-92 BA (Hons) Geography, Class I, University of Oxford.

Current Employment 2005+ Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.

University Lecturer 2005; Senior Lecturer 2007; Reader 2010.

Previous Employment 2002-5 Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of

Oxford. Lecturer at St Hugh’s College.

2001-2 Research Associate at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Research Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography and Dean at New Hall.

1998-01 British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Research Fellow at New Hall.

1994-97 Research Assistant at the Department of Anthropology, UCL.

Visiting Fellowships 2008 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India (Jan ’08-

April ’08). 2007 Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

(January ’07 – May ’07).

2006 Resource Management in Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. (October ’06 – January ’07).

2005 Environmental Science Programme, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. (January – April ’05).

Membership of Academic and Professional Bodies Society of Conservation Biology (Member of the Social Science Working Group) Royal African Society Development Studies Association World Commission on Protected Areas; Commission on Social, Economic and

Environmental Policy (both commissions of the World Conservation Union, IUCN)

Websites http://celebrityanddevelopment.woprdpress.com http://environmentalismandconservation.wordpress.com http://studyinggreen.wordpress.com

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Research 1. Publications [WoS citation figures; Google Scholar citation figures] Books Brockington, D and Duffy, R. (eds) 2011. Conservation and Capitalism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Brockington, D. 2009. Celebrity and the Environment. Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation.

ZED books, London. [13; 30] Brockington, D., Duffy, R. and Igoe, J. 2008. Nature Unbound. Conservation, Capitalism and the

Future of Protected Areas. Earthscan, London. [36; 68] Brockington, D. 2002. Fortress Conservation. The preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve. James

Currey, African Issues series, Oxford. [145; 307]

Special Issues in Journals Duffy, R. and Brockington, D. 2010. Conservation and Capitalism. Special Issue with Antipode.

Igoe, J and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Engaging Neoliberal Conservation.’ Special Issue with Conservation and Society.

Papers: In Preparation and Under Review Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. ‘The Culture Industry meets the Spectacle of Nature.’ In preparation.

Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. ‘One Giant Serengeti.’ In preparation.

Brockington, D. ‘The Production and Performance of Authenticity: the work of celebrity in international development.’ In preparation for World Development special issue proposal with Stefano Ponte and Lisa Richey.

Brockington, D. ‘A history of celebrity and development.’ Draft circulated to colleagues.

Brockington, D. ‘The UK Public’s Attitudes to the World, to Development Aid and UK Public Giving to Overseas Development. A discussion of the sources, patterns, trends and their implications for celebrity advocacy.’ Draft circulated to colleagues.

Brockington, D. ‘Trends in reporting on celebrity, charities and development and humanitarian NGOs in UK newspapers.’ Discussion document released on website: http://celebrityanddevelopment.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/unexpected-findings-from-newspaper-analyses/

Brockington, D. ‘Getting it. Working with celebrity involvement in good causes overseas.’ Discussion document released on website: http://celebrityanddevelopment.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/getting-it-first-paper-available-for-comment-and-consultation/

Brockington, D. and Ladle R. ‘Financial constraints, protected areas and conservation goals.’ Under Review with Environmental Conservation.

Holmes, G., Scholfield, K. and Brockington, D. ‘We know where we want to be, but do we know where we are? Comparing conservation prioritisation models and conservation spending in sub-Saharan Africa’ Under Review with Conservation Biology.

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Homewood, K., Chenevix Trench, P. and Brockington, D. ‘Pastoral livelihoods and wildlife revenues’ Under Review with Pastoralism Journal.

Brockington, D. Forthcoming. ‘A Review Essay of UNEP’s 2011 Report ‘Towards a Green Economy. Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication.’ Accepted by Development and Change.

Brockington, D. Forthcoming.‘Celebrities and Africa’. Contribution to Forum / Debate ‘Brand Africa: Multiple Transitions in Global Capitalism’ ed Ponte, S. and Richey, L. Accepted by Review of African Political Economy.

Holmes, G., Ferguson, B. and Brockington, D. Forthcoming. ‘Protected areas – what people say about well being.’ Chapter in D. Roe, J.Elliot and Matt Walpole (ed) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction.

Homewood, K., Chenevix Trench, P. and Brockington, D. Forthcoming. ‘Pastoralism and conservation – who benefits?’ Chapter in D. Roe, J.Elliot and Matt Walpole (ed) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction.

Buscher, B., Brockington, D., Igoe, J., Neves, K. and Sullivan, S. Forthcoming. Towards a consolidated critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation. Accepted by Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

Papers: Academic Journals, Published Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Ecosystem Services and Fictitious Commodities.’ Environmental

Conservation 38 (4): 367-9.

Oldekop, J.A., Bebbington, A.J., Brockington, D., and Preziosi, R.F. 2010. ‘Understanding the Lessons and Limitations of Conservation and Development.’ Conservation Biology 24 (2): 461-9.

Homewood, K., Brockington, D. and Sullivan, S. 2010. ‘Alternative view of Serengeti Road.’ Nature 467: 788-9.

Dressler, W., Büscher, B., Schoon, M., Brockington, D., Hayes, T., Kull, C., McCarthy, J., and Streshta, K. 2010. From Hope to Crisis and Back Again? A Critical History of the Global CBNRM Narrative. Environmental Conservation 37 (1): 5-15. [2; 10]

Brockington, D and Duffy, R. 2010. ‘Conservation and Capitalism: an Introduction.’ Antipode 42 (3): 469-484. [2; 12]

Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘Conservation NGOs and the Conservationist Mode of Production in sub-Saharan Africa.’ Antipode 42 (3): 551-575. [4]

Igoe, J., Neves-Graca, K. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘A Spectacular Eco-Tour Around the Historic Bloc: Theorizing the Convergence of Biodiversity Conservation and Capitalist Expansion. Antipode 42 (3): 486-512. [4; 18]

Lele, S., Wilshusen, P., Brockington, D., Seidler, R. and Bawa, K. 2010. ‘Beyond exclusion: alternative approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing tropics.’ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2: 1-7. [1; 8]

Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘Expenditure by Conservation Non-Governmental Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ Conservation Letters 3(2): 106-113. [4]

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Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘The work of conservation organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.’ Journal of Modern African Studies 48 (1): 1-33. [2; 7]

Brockington, D., Sachedina, H., and Scholfield, K. 2009. Conservation as a Driving Force in Land Use Change in Tanzania. International Journal of African Historical Studies 41 (3): 1-24. [2]

Igoe, J., Brockington, D., Randall, S. and Scholfield, K. 2008. Lessons to be learned about migration around protected areas. Science (E-Letter, 11 December 2008), www.sciencemag. org/cgi/eletters/321/5885/123?ck=nck.

Brockington, D. 2008. ‘Corruption, Taxation, Democracy and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania.’ Journal of Development Studies 44 (1): 103-126. [4; 16]

Brockington D. 2008. ‘Powerful Environmentalisms. Conservation, Celebrity and Capitalism.’ Media, Culture and Society 30 (4): 551-568. [11; 22]

Upton, C., Ladle, R., Hulme, D., Jiang, T., Brockington, D. and Adams, W.M. 2008. ‘Protected Areas, Poverty & Biodiversity: A National Scale Analysis.’ Oryx 42 (1): 19-25. [8; 15]

Brockington D. 2008. Celebrity Conservation. Interpreting the Irwins. Media International Australia. 127: 96-108. [1]

Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Neoliberal conservation. A brief introduction.’ Conservation and Society 5 (4): 432-449 [25; 67]

Schmidt-Soltau, K., and Brockington, D. 2007 ‘Protected Areas and Resettlement: what scope for voluntary relocation?’ World Development 35 (12): 2182-2202. [10; 26]

Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Devolution, Community Conservation and Forests. On local government performance and Village Forest Reserves in Tanzania.’ Society and Natural Resources 20: 835-48. [13; 39]

Brockington, D. and Igoe, J. 2006. ‘Eviction for Conservation. A Global Overview.’ Conservation and Society 4 (3): 424-70. Reprinted: (in Portugeuse), in A ecologia politica das grandes ONGs transnacionais conservacionistas. Organizador Antonio Carlos Diegues. NUPAUB-USB, Sao Paulo, and in Development Induced Displacement: Contexts and Consequences, IFCAI, Calcutta. [39; 123]

West, P., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas.’ Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 251-77 [81; 185]

West, P. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘An Anthropological Perspective on Some Unexpected Consequences of Protected Areas.’ Conservation Biology 20 (3): 609-616. [24; 72]

Brockington, D. 2006. ‘The politics and ethnography of environmentalisms in Tanzania.’ African Affairs 105 (418): 97-116. [12; 25]

Brockington, D., Igoe, J. and K. Schmidt-Soltau, K. 2006. Conservation, Human Rights, and Poverty Reduction. Conservation Biology 20 (1): 250-2. [49; 145]

Adams, W.M., Aveling, R., Brockington, D., Dickson, B., Elliott, J., Hutton, J., Roe, R., Vira, B., and Wolmer, W. 2004. ‘Conservation and Poverty: A Framework for Analysis’ Science 306: 1146-9. [152; 354]

Brockington, D. and Schmidt-Soltau, K. 2004. ‘The social and environmental impacts of wilderness and development.’ Oryx 38: 1-3. [22; 61]

Brockington, D. 2004. ‘Community conservation, Inequality and Injustice. Myths of Power in Protected Area Management.’ Conservation and Society 2 (2): 411-432. [16; 52]

Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2003 ‘Managing tragedies. Understanding Conflict over Common Pool Resources.’ Science 302: 1915-6. Reprinted in pages 149-153 of

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D.Kennedy (ed) Science Magazine’s State of the Planet 2006-7. Island Press, Washington. [52; 133]

Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Myths of Sceptical Environmentalism.’ Environmental Science and Policy 6: 543-546. [2; 10]

Gillson, L., Sheridan, M. & Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Representing environments in flux: case studies from East Africa.’ Area 35: 371-389. [11; 26]

Brockington, D. 2001. ‘Women’s Income and Livelihood Strategies of Dispossessed Pastoralists.’ Human Ecology 29: 307-338. [7; 29]

Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 2001. ‘Degradation debates and data deficiencies. The case of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Africa 71: 449-480. [11; 26]

Brockington, D. 2001. ‘Communal Property and Degradation Narratives. Debating the Sukuma immigration into Rukwa Region, Tanzania.’ Cahiers d’Afrique.20: 1-22. [6; 12]

Brockington, D. 2000. ‘Pastoralism on the margins. The decline and dispersal of herding on the Umba Nyika from 1800 to 1919.’ Azania 35: 1-19. [1]

Homewood, K. and Brockington, D. 1999. ‘Biodiversity, conservation and development in Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Global Ecology and Biogeography 8: 301-313. [16; 33]

Brockington, D. 1999. ‘Conservation, Displacement and Livelihoods. The consequences of the eviction for pastoralists moved from the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Nomadic Peoples 3: 74-96. [10; 26]

Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 1999. Pastoral Land Tenure and Community Conservation: a case study from North-East Tanzania. Pastoral Land Tenure Series No 11. IIED, London. [21; 48]

Book Chapters Brockington, D. 2011 Untitled Section in ‘Views from the Industry’ in Wildlife Film-making.

Looking to the Future. Edited by Piers Warren. Wildeye, UK.

Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2009. Celebrity Conservation. In Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures edited by Robert Clarke. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. [4]

Brockington, D. 2006. Entries on ‘Maasai’, ‘Samburu’, ‘Agriculture – Intensive’, ‘Agriculture – Slash and Burn’, ‘Ik’ and ‘Nomads’, in H. James Birx (ed) Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Sage, London.

Brockington, D. 2005. ‘The costs of conservation: monitoring economic change as a consequence of conservation policy at Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ In K. Homewood (ed) Rural resources and local livelihoods in Africa. James Currey, Oxford. [2]

Brockington, D. and Sullivan, S. 2003. ‘Meaning and fieldwork – lessons from qualitative research methodologies.’ In R. Schevyns (ed) Field work and Development Studies. A Rough Guide. Sage, London. [5; 45]

Rogers, P.J., Brockington, D., Kiwasila, H. and Homewood, K. 1999. ‘Environmental Awareness and Conflict Genesis: People versus Parks in Mkomazi Game Reserve.’ In T. Granfelt (ed) Managing the Globalised Environment. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. [1; 12]

Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 1999. ‘Pastoralism around Mkomazi Game Reserve: the interaction of Conservation and Development.’ In M. Coe, N. McWilliam, G. Stone and M. Packer (eds) Mkomazi: the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of a Tanzanian savanna. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London. [9; 15]

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Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 1996. ‘Wildlife, Pastoralists and Science. Debates concerning Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ In M. Leach and R. Mearns (eds) The Lie of the Land. Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. International African Institute, James Currey, Oxford. [17; 43]

Professional and Popular Papers Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Doing it for charity. How can charities get more from their relationships

with celebrities?’ Chapter in Britain in 2012 (Annual ESRC Publication).

Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Charities need to rethink celebrity’ Third Sector 8/11/11. http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1102612/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

Sachedina, H., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘The Spectacular Growth of the African Wildlife Foundation and the Paradoxes of Neoliberal Conservation. Current Conservation 3 (3): 24-27.

Igoe, J. Sullivan, S. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘Problematising Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation” Displaced and Disobedient Knowledge.’ Current Conservation 3 (3): 4-7

Brockington, D. 2009. ‘Getting Development into the News. The Role of Celebrity in Development’ Development@Manchester Issue 3.

Brockington, D. and Igoe, J. 2008. ‘Eviction for Conservation. A Global Overview.’ Current Conservation 2 (3): 7-8.

Winer, N., Turton, D. and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Conservation, Protected Areas and Humanitarian Practice.’ Policy Matters 15: 232-40. http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM16

Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Community Conservation.’ Current Conservation 1 (1): 7. Borrini-Feyerabend, G. and Brockington, D. (with Diaw, C., Farvar, T., Rahmanian, M.,

Rahimzadeh, A., Shamimi, L., Roe, D., Scherl, L. and Williams, A.A.) 2006. ‘Poverty and wealth, security and respect, policies and rights – seeking the conditions for synergy between livelihoods and conservation.’ Policy Matters 14: 5-8.

Bhomia, R.K. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘Conservation: pride or prejudice? An analysis of the Protected Areas of India.’ Policy Matters 14: 142-154. http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM16

Sullivan, S. and Brockington, D. 2004 Qualitative methods in globalisation studies: or, saying something about the world without counting or inventing it, CSGR Working Paper no. 139/04

Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Injustice and conservation – Is “local support” necessary for sustainable protected areas?’ Policy Matters 12: 22-30. [9; 30] http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM16

Brockington, D. 2000. ‘Some consequences of the pastoral migration to Southern Tanzania. A research report from Rukwa region.’ Tanzanian Society of Animal Production.

Kiwasila, H. and Brockington, D. 1996. ‘Combining Conservation with Community development around Mkomazi Game Reserve.’ Miombo Technical Supplement

Reports Scholfield, K. and Brockington, D. 2008. Non-Governmental Organisations and African Wildlife

Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis. The University of Manchester. Also printed as a paper for the Brooks World Poverty Institute http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/africanwildlife/.

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Brockington, D., Millea, N., Mortimore, M., Pinfold, J. and Popham, M. 2005. The Commonwealth and African Aerial Photograph Archive. Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2002. ‘Analytical framework for dialogue on CPR management.’ Report to the Department for International Development, UK.

Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2002. ‘Common Choices: Policy Options for Common Pool Resources’. Report to the Department for International Development, UK.

Homewood, K., Kiwasila, H. and Brockington, D. 1997. ‘Conservation with Development?’ The case of Mkomazi’. Report to the Department for International Development, UK.

Review Articles Book reviews for Area, Ecological Anthropology, Journal of African History, Journal of Development Studies, Land Use Planning, Africa, Conservation and Society and African Affairs.

Other Media Brockington, D. 2010. ‘Do celebrities help or hinder environmental causes?

http://www.thescavenger.net/environment/do-celebrities-help-or-hinder-environmental-causes-93478.html

Brockington, D. 2005 ‘Change in African Environments? Old photographs are revealing new information about the African environment.’ Space for got bad for bad got for got http://www.geoconnexion.com/magazine/article.asp?ID=2421

Editorships I am editor of the journals Conservation and Society (since 2007) and Environment and Society, Advances in Research (the journal’s first issue came out 2010).

I am an associate editor of Environmental Conservation (since 2009)

2. Research Grants 2011 Hallsworth Visiting Professorship (with Arun Agrawal). Value £4k. 2010 A 24 month ESRC mid-career fellowship called ‘Celebrity and Development.’ Value

£250k.

2010 An MRC, NERC, ESRC, BBSRC start up project exploring the risks of viral zoonoses emerging in East Africa. I was a co-investigator. Value £50k

2010 An AHRC network to look at the work of celebrity, the media and environmentalisms. I am a co-investigator. Value £30k.

2006-8 An investigation of the impacts and success of village based forest reserves in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen and University of Sokoine. Value $170,000, requested from the Tanzanian Forest Research Institute. I am an advisor, to be administered from Sokoine University

2005-8 ESRC Research Fellowship for work on the Social Impacts of Protected Areas Oct 2005 – Sept 2008. Value £160,000. I am the PI, the project is administered from Manchester. Outputs include the publications listed above on this topic, the books with Earthscan and Zed and the new teaching module on Conservation and Development. This grant was rated Outstanding, (Very) Good and Good by its evaluators.

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2005-7 AHRC funded research project ‘Land degradation in Central Tanzania’. This is an experimental project comparing recent palynological data, analysed with Pb210, with oral histories and archival research. Value £30,000. June 2006 – Dec 2007. I am a co-investigator, the project is administered from the University of Oxford. We await further analysis of the core samples for the publications.

2004 Oppenheimer Fund award for work in South Africa on adaptive co-management of protected areas Jan 2005 – April 2005. Value £5,000. I was the PI. The outputs where the application for the ESRC Research Fellowship (above) and the paper in Ann. Rev Anth.

2004 Mellon Foundation support for the development of web-based finding aids for a collection of 1.5 million aerial photographs taken in 1940s, 50s and 60s, and for the relocation of these photographs to Oxford University. Value $39,000. July 2004 – June 2005. I was the PI. The key output was a report examining how it could be possible to search for and order copies of the photographs on line.

2004 Interdisciplinary conference on environmental change: ‘Trees, Rain and Politics in Africa’ Funded by British Council, BIEA, British Academy and St Antony’s College for £12,000. Main outputs are 2 collections of papers in refereed journals (not listed elsewhere in the CV as I am not co-ordinating their publication).

2004 Research Development Fund (Oxford University) support for an interdisciplinary African Environments Programme supporting research in natural and social science. Value £30,000. I was the main instigator of the proposal.

2003 ‘Land Degradation in East Africa’ seed money awarded by the Environmental Change Institute of Oxford University. Value £10,000. I was the joint instigator. This resulted in the AHRC grant.

2001 ‘Common Pool Resources in India, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.’ DfID. A response to a research call by DfID for work on common pool resources in Zimbabwe, India and Tanzania. Value £100,000. I was a co-investigator. This produced two reports for DfID, a workshop and a publication in Science.

1999 ‘Dynamics of Communal Resource Management.’ British Academy Small Grant. Value £5,000. This grant supported by British Academy post-doctoral fellowship, I was the PI. Key outputs include several publications on natural resource management and village government.

1994 Conservation and Development on East African Rangelands, DfID. Value £150,000. I helped to develop the proposal and was a research assistant on this project. Outputs include my PhD, first book, and numerous journal papers.

3. Present and Past PhD Students Jessica Hope. ‘Environmentalism and Neoliberalism in Bolivia’ Self-funded Began Sept 2011

Andreas Scheba. ‘Offsetting REDD-plus: The impact of carbon trading on local communities in developing countries.’ Began Sept 2010. Supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.

Ashish Aggarwal. ‘Who owns the forest and its carbon – a study of REDD+.’ Began Sept 2010 Univ Manchester Scholarship.

Melanie Stroebel. ‘Ecotourism and Climate Change’. Began Sept 2010, SCI funded.

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Antonio Allegretti. ‘Money, markets and power. Maasai pastoralists and the cash economy, Tanzania.’ Began Sept 2009, Self funded.

Carlos Ferreira. ‘Biodiversity offsets: market emergenve, intermediation and the construction of marketable nature(s).’ Began Sept 2009, SCI funded,

Katherine Scholfield. ‘Conservation NGOs in Africa.’ Began April 2009, Self-funded.

Sumana Datta. ‘Climate change policies and local forest management in India.’ Sponsored by the Tesco Sustainable Consumption Institute. Began September 2008.

Lucy Scott. 2010. ‘Giving Assets: An Effective Approach for Reducing Vulnerability and Building Livelihoods? The Case of the Chars Livelihoods Programme’ (Manchester University).

Hilary Gilbert 2010. ‘Everything has its price’. Conservation, Development and Bedu in St Katherine Protectorate, South Sinai’ (Manchester University). Hilary is currently serving as a post-doctoral researcher on a project sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.

George Holmes. 2009. ‘The power of international conservation, and local resistance to it: A case study from the Dominican Republic’ (Manchester University). George is currently on a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.

Emmanuel Nuesiri. 2009. ‘Community-based conservation, and the politics of decentralised forest management in Cameroon’ (Oxford University). Emmanuel is currently serving as post-doctoral researcher with Jesse Ribot at the University of Illinois

Hassan Sachedina. 2008. ‘Wildlife are our Oil. Conservation, Pastoralism and NGOs in the Tarangire Ecosystem, Tanzania’ (Oxford University). Hassan’s thesis was awarded the the Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology and the Audrey Richards’ Prize for best Africanist thesis in the UK 2008-9.

Anna Larsen. 2006. ‘Mountain farmers in the Upper Selška Valley: Negotiating agri-environmental production options in Slovenia’ (Oxford University).

Lauren Rickards. 2006. ‘Capable, enlightened and masculine. Constructing English agriculturalist ideals in formal agricultural education 1845-2003’ (Oxford University).

4. Consultancy work 2004 A report for UN AIDS on migration in Africa.

5. Lectures and Conference Activity since 2004 International Conferences and Panels Organised June 11 Co-convenor of Nature Inc! in the ISS at the Hague. Attended by nearly 200 people. July 11 Co-convenor of final meeting of the Spectacular Environmentalism Group (AHRC

funded). Sept 10 Co-convenor of first meeting of the Spectacular Environmentalism Group (AHRC

funded). Dec 08 Convened the first meeting of the Celebrity and Environment Research Group

Sept 08 Co-convenor (with Rosaleen Duffy) of an international Symposium at Manchester on Conservation and Capitalism. 25 speakers with invitations sent to diverse African countries, India, Europe, the US as well as the UK.

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Nov 04 Co-convenor of a panel on the social impacts of protected areas and displacement, at the World Conservation Conference, Bangkok.

Jun 04 An interdisciplinary conference called ‘Trees, Rain and Politics in Africa’. This was organised jointly with Paul Lane of the British Institute of East Africa, William Beinart of St Anthony’s College and Michael Sheridan of Vermont University and attended by more than 100 people, with more than 30 speakers from overseas.

Lectures and Seminars (** international travel and costs paid; * national travel and costs paid)

*Nov 11 Celebrity, Authenticity and Development, IDS. *Nov 11 Celebrity, Authenticity and Development, Development Education Research Centre

UCL *Apr 11 Celebrity and Development, Bristol University International Development Conference. *Mar 11 Celebrity and the Environment, Land Economy, Cambridge University.

**Feb 11 La conservation de biodiversité et l’étude de la conservation: où en sommes-nous et où allons-nous?, Montpellier.

**Nov 10 Celebrity and the Environment, Media Studies and Journalism, University of Athens *Feb 10 Celebrity and the Environment, UCL, Anthropology Department

*Nov 09 Celebrity and the Environment. Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Also presented as an international teleseminar of the Transboundary Protected Area Research initiative; and to the Department of Drama at Manchester University.

‘Humanitarianism and Celebrity. What has changed?’ Humanitarian and Conflict Response Centre ESRC seminar, University of Manchester

Oct 09 Celebrity and the Environment. Department of Botany, UCT. Also to Department of Geography, Kings College London. (*)

Apr-May 09 Celebrity and the Environment. Columbia University, New York (**); Dartmouth College (*); University of Massachusetts; and Berkeley (*).

* Dec 08 Celebrity and the Environment. Destin, LSE. ** Nov 08 The Work of Conservation NGOs in Africa. Department of Geography, University of

Zurich. ** Nov 08 Celebrity and the Environment. Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich. Jan-Apr 08 Talks on ‘Celebrity Conservation’ and ‘The Work of Conservation NGOs’ in

Bangalore (Ashoka Trust for Ecology and the Environment, The International Institute of Science and The Institute for Social and Economic Change); Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru University and WWF) and Mysore (Nature Conservation Foundation).

Sept 07 Celebrity Conservation. Fame, Sex, Wealth, Power … and the Environment. Social Development Seminar Series, University of Manchester.

Feb 07 Celebrity Conservation. Fame, Sex, Wealth, Power … and the Environment. Departmental Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Oct 06 Celebrity Conservation. Departmental Seminar, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Research Programme, ANU, Canberra.

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*May 06 The New Empires of Nature. Science and Empire workshop, Department of History, University of Oxford.

*Feb 06 Neoliberalism and conservation. Departmental seminar, Anthropology, UCL.

*Nov 05 Equitable international web based access to aerial photograph collections. The RGS, London.

Feb 05 Power and myth in conservation. Departmental Seminar, Environmental Science Programme, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

*Nov 04 Equitable and Sustainable Development? The case of conservation. Departmental Seminar, Institute for Development and Policy, University of Manchester.

Conference Activity (** international travel and costs paid; * national travel and costs paid) Sept 11 DSA, York; Paper presented on New Development Actors Panel July 11 Nature (Inc). Panel Organiser on Environmental Film. June 11 European African Studies Association, Uppsala. Panel discussant and chair.

**May 11 Rockefeller Archive Workshop, New York. Apr 11 Panel Discussant and panellist at Association of American Geographers

Sept 10 A Review of Research into the Relationships between Protected Areas and Human Well Being. Panel presentation at the Chronic Poverty Research Centre Conference, Manchester.

Celebrity Colonialism and Conservation in Africa. Panel presentation at the African Studies Association, UK, Oxford.

*May 10 The relationship between human well being and protected areas. Keynote talk at conservation conference, Oxford Brookes University.

May 10 Conservation, Neoliberalism and Wildlife Film. Talk at the ‘Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism’ conference, Lund, Sweden.

*Apr 10 The relationships between protected areas and human well being. Talk presented at the Zoological Society of London Symposium on Poverty and Conservation

Dec 09 Neoliberal Conservation and Celebrity. Talk at the American Anthropological Association and chair of the double panel on Neoliberal Conseravtion.

**Oct 09 Neoliberal Conservation. DIVERSITAS Conference, Cape Town.

June 09 Second meeting of the Celebrity and Environment Study Group in Oxford. Aug 08 Presented a paper at the International Association for the Study of Common Property,

annual conference, Cheltenham **May 08 Presented work at ‘Disobedient Knowledges’ meeting on the work of Conservation

NGOs, Washington DC Apr 08 Presented paper at the Annual conference of the Association of American Geographers

and co-convened its panel on Conservation and Capitalism. *Feb 08 Political Ecology. Commentator at a workshop at Delhi University

*Oct 05 People protecting nature. Social dimensions of environmental conservation. Commentator at an international workshop hosted by James Carrier and Paige West, Oxford Brooks University.

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**Jun 04 Communities and forest governance. Commentator at International Symposium on Forest Certification at Yale Program on Forest Certification.

6. Research Collaborations

I am working with scholars and activists in India, Australia, Africa, Europe and America to promote research and understanding of the social impacts of protected areas. This includes both the consequences of physical displacement, economic displacement as well as numerous positive impacts. We convened most recently in April 2010 at the Zoological Society of London where I have been invited to give a lecture on the Social Impacts of Protected Areas.

There have been two more recent international collaborations developing on similar themes. The first, which has grown in collaboration with Rosaleen Duffy (SOSS) is a network of scholars from Universities in the UK, US, Canada, Europe and Southern Africa who are exploring the relationships between conservation and capitalism. This group met at the Symposium held at Manchester in 2008 and which lead to a special double issue of papers in the journal Antipode. Many of the participants were present at the 2009 American Anthropological Association conference to present papers in a double panel of that meeting. There have been subsequent meetings in Lund (2010) and a large international conference of 200 attendees at the ISS, the Hague (July 2011).

The second comprises a group of scholars and activists who are comparing and collating experiences of dealing with the larger conservation NGOs. I was part of a group led by Jim Igoe (Dartmouth) and Sian Sullivan (Birkbeck) that submitted a successful bid for funds to the Wenner Gren Foundation and the IIED. It brought together a group of over 20 participants from India, South and North America, Australasia, the Pacific, Africa and Europe in Washington DC. The outputs of that meeting were published in the policy journal Current Conservation.

I am maintaining my interest in environmental change and am still working with Prof Kathy Willis (University of Oxford). Dr Lindsey Gilson (University of Cape Town) and Prof Pius Yanda (University of Dar es Salaam) on research into rates and causes of environmental change in central western Tanzania. This is an ongoing venture combining diverse techniques including remote sensing, palaeoecology and soil analyses with oral and archival histories in an attempt to uncover the patterns and processes driving environmental change. I was also on the advisory board of an EU funded project that it examining long term environmental change in north-east Africa and am a research advisor to the British Institute in East Africa

I am also still working on the politics and consequences of participatory forest management in Tanzania. This is a collaboration of researchers from the Universities of Sokoine (Tanzania), Cambridge and Copenhagen. I have recently been invited to join a bid for EU funds by Prof Tobias Haller of the University of Berne to explore the performance of local government of natural resources in several locations in Africa.

I am developing research into celebrity and its role in environmental affairs. Collaborators include Prof Graham Huggan, a post-colonial literary scholar at Leeds, Prof William Beinart (African History, University of Oxford), Libby Lester (University of Tasmania), Katja Neves-Graca (Concordia, Canada), Jim Igoe (Dartmouth), Malcolm Draper (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa). I worked with Mike Goodman (Geography, Kings), and Jo Littler (Middlesex) to put in a successful bid for AHRC funding for this network. I will be leading an international symposium to be held at Manchester which brings together researchers working on celebrity advocacy.

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Finally I am developing a novel analysis of conservation NGOs, looking at a large number (280+), where they work and where their money goes. It is a unique and important analysis which is devoting a great deal of interest. Collaborators include Dan Miller and Christophe Nolte at the University of Michigan, Richard Ladle at Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil), Kartik Shanker at the Indian Institute for Science, Erik Johnson of Washington State University and Dan Hillyard of the Zoo Conservation Outreach Group.

Previous international collaborations include work with the University of Dar es Salaam on conservation policy (1994-7); with the Ministry of Water and Livestock on the consequences of livestock migration (1998-2001); and with the University of Dar es Salaam, University of Zimbabwe and the Institute of Economic Growth, India (2001-2).

Teaching 1. Teaching New Initiatives across Universities I have established with colleagues a unique website which attempts to bring environmental film into

the classroom. We took an extraordinary. Multi-award winning film ‘Green’ and set up a website which made the film physically accessible and intellectually appealing to educators by writing a series of brief essays, together with a response from the filmmaker, to facilitate its use in the classroom.

University of Manchester 2009-10 ‘Conservation and Development’. Masters in International Development. 2008-9 ‘Conservation and Development’ and ‘Development Research’, both for the Masters in

International Development. I also planned the Social Development Cluster’s fieldwork. 2007-8 ‘Conservation and Development’. Masters in International Development.

Recommended for a teaching award 2005-6 Convenor and principal lecturer in ‘Environment and Development’.

Rhodes University 2005 Designed and delivered a course on ‘Social and Economic Aspects of Complex

Systems’ to second year undergraduates.

University of Oxford

2003-5 Convenor and principal lecturer in ‘Communities, Conservation and Development’. A core course for the MSc in Biodiversity Conservation at the Department of Geography.

2002-5 Co-convenor and principal lecturer in ‘Environmental Policy’. A core course for the Masters in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the Department of Geography.

2002-5 Designed and delivered two core courses: ‘Environments and Environmentalisms’ and ‘Geographies of Inequality’ for the Undergraduate Honours Degree in Geography.

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University of Cambridge

2000-2 I convened a series of lectures and tutorials about pastoral societies for the Geography of Africa a third year undergraduate option.

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4. Teaching Assessments University of Manchester I have received assessments on three units while at Manchester. Conservation and Development

was by far the best course I have taught. Students have loved I with significant numbers stating that it was the best course they had had. I enjoyed teaching it too. The course has been commended by the School in all the years it has been taught. Scores can range from 2 (top marks) through to 0 (unimpressive) and -2 (dire). Note that I was not teaching 2010-11.

Conservation and Development (2009-10: n=30) The teaching I received was excellent

The material was intellectually stimulating

The unit was well structured

The unit provied for participation and sharing of ideas

The unit was engaging and interesting

Overall I enjoyed this unit

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Conservation and Development (2008-9: n = 18)

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Development Research (2008-9; n = 74) This is a compulsory second semester course for almost all our students and rarely as popular as the more specialist courses. It is largely team taught. The average scores for all questions was 1.00, up from 0.67 in previous years.

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University of Oxford Masters Courses. The results for the core course on Environmental Policy in 2003 are shown

below (n = 12). The questionnaire did not yield an overall average score. I only have records for this course as subsequent masters courses’ teaching assessments were administered centrally and the results not distributed.

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Undergraduate courses. I was responsible for collecting the data and analysing them myself using questionnaires the department designed. They do not yield an overall average score. The highlights are:

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University of Cambridge Undergraduate courses. The graphs show the highlights of feedback from departmental

questionnaires. The questionnaires were not structured to yield an average score. Note the graphs below show percentage response, not actual numbers.

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5. Examination Responsibilities 2005-11 First and second marker on diverse courses assessments and dissertations

submitted by students taught by the Social Development Cluster

2002-5 First marker for ‘finals’ papers in Human Geography subjects at the University of Oxford

2001-2 First marker for selected questions of finals papers for the Geography of Africa at the University of Cambridge.

6. Appointments held as Tutor University of Manchester 2005-10 I have been the personal tutor of Masters students studying International

Development, following their progress and attending to their needs through the year as well as accompanying them on field trips.

University of Oxford 2002-5 Tutor in Geography at St Hugh’s College. I oversaw the studies of up to 18

undergraduate students and delivered courses of tutorials (8 per topic) on Human Geography (year 1), the Human Environment (year two), and the Philosophy and Practice of Geography (year 3). For these courses each student wrote one 2-3,000 word essay a week which I read and marked. I also supervised all the human geography dissertations, gave career advice, ran revision classes and interviewed candidates for college places.

University of Cambridge 2000-2 Director of Studies, New Hall. I oversaw the studies of up to 13 students, and

taught tutorials in Human Geography to first years. I also ran revision classes and gave career advice as well as interviewing candidates to the college.

Knowledge Transfer

My engagement with conservation is based on two long term periods of fieldwork in rural Tanzania, which examined the social consequences of strict conservation and the politics of devolved, village-based natural resource management. Its impact is visible in the recent resolve of the WCMC to monitor the social impacts of protected areas, in the desire of conservation organisations to pay for me to attend their meetings, and by the invitation to join two of the IUCN’s Commissions. I have also been a guest editor of one of its journals: Policy Matters. All the evaluators of the ESRC Fellowship that I held which explored the Social Impacts of Protected Areas strongly praised my engagement with policy makers and conservation practitioners.

My introduction into the world of international conservation has in turn inspired a new research project into how international conservation finance and networks work. With a

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student I have compiled a list of nearly all the international conservation NGOs working in anglophone Africa. We are now able to map where they work, who funds them, who serves on their boards and as patron, and how much money they channel to what sort of project. This has led to a clearer analysis of the political economy of African conservation than currently exists.

One particularly interesting area of work has been efforts to encourage the larger conservation NGOs to form a self-policed code of practice with respect to human rights. This work is being led by Nick Winer who has been an honorary Research Fellow at the School. The major NGOs involved in this initiative are some of the most important players internationally with, collectively, budgets of billions of dollars and powerful lobbying and political presence in many countries. The longer term project of which this is part is that the conservation community needs to see its activities as part of a broader set of interventions, which includes Development policy, and to which the same standards and principles apply. Currently we can have ridiculous situations whereby eviction of people to create dams and development projects requires elaborate protocols and procedures to ensure as little harm is done to evictees as possible, yet eviction for conservation requires no such measures. We want to encourage NGOs to form a set of best practice principles by which they will police their own community to discourage some of the abuses we have observed elsewhere. We have set up the ‘Just Conservation’ to facilitate information sharing about this issue.

Finally some of these critiques of conservation are making their way into more popular and accessible forms. I was both an advisor and one of a panel of experts and voices interviewed to make the films ‘A Place without People’ (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QrEmUjNhwyo), ‘Unnatural Histories: the Serengeti’ (BBC4 June 2011) and ‘Conservation’s Dirty Secrets (Channel 4 June 2011).

With respect to my work on celebrity I have recently written an article for the NGO trade journal Third Sector which reports recent findings from the research project and have been using my research project website to generate interest and traffic to the site as well as engage the user community of interviewees with the results.

1. Invitations to policy making audiences. (** international travel paid)

**Feb ’07 Eviction for Conservation. Presentation at the ‘Vision 20/20 Initiative’, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge. (International travel as I journeyed from New Zealand to give the talk).

**Mar ’06 Working Group meeting on the Social Impacts of Protected Areas, Convention on Biological Diversity, Curitiba, Brazil.

Nov ’04 Assessing the social impact of protected areas. The World Conservation Congress, Bangkok.

Sept ’03 Equity at the heart of conservation. Presentation to the Governance Stream of the IUCN’s World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa.

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2. Involvement in continuing professional development. 2006 I designed a short course for a staff member of the Ford Foundation (East Africa)

as part of her personal training which has resulted in a request for more courses, as well as an invitation to join the board of this staff member’s own development NGO.

3. Invited Service on Advisory International Bodies and NGOs. I am an invited member of two Commissions of the World Conservation Union (IUCN): the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) since 2006, and the Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP), since 2003. The IUCN’s Commissions are international networks of experts in diverse aspects of conservation research and practice which examine and attempt to modify conservation practice in accordance with the IUCN’s vision of ‘a just world which values biodiversity’.

I have been invited to nominate candidates for awards from the newly established Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation, which is based in Switzerland and to assess nominations for the Katerva Foundation awards. I serve on the board of one NGO: MICAIA which works on agricultural development and environmental justice in Mocambique. I am on the advisory board of CREE which promotes conservation and rural development in diverse sites globally, and Dakshin and environment and development NGO based in India.

Academic Service

1. General responsibility for an area of School academic activity On arrival in Manchester I set up a fortnightly reading and research group for staff and post-doctoral students. Its primary purpose is to ‘grow’ PhD students. It provides an environment where they can dissect and discuss collections of recent academic articles or works of major thinkers with more senior colleagues. They also use it to present research plans, initial findings after fieldwork, and chapters as they write up. I and my colleagues also find it a useful environment to develop our own ideas, and have presented research proposals and draft papers to the group. We also invite visiting speakers. The general format is for a collection of readings to be provided a week before each meeting with one person guiding the group discussion through them.

I convened the Social Development Seminar Series in Autumn 2007 and 2008 I was the deputy Programme Director for the Masters in International Development, Poverty and Development and Development Studies in 2008-9 and organised the field trip that year. I am the Programme Director of the same Masters programmes 2009-10 and am responsible for over 140 students on these programmes. I co-convene the IDPM’s Environment and Development research theme with Phil Woodhouse 2009 – present I am research director of the IDPM, 2010 – present.

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I am the co-ordinator of the Society and Environment Research Group, a cross school initiative. Recent invitees include Sian Sullivan, Arun Agrawal and Elinor Ostrom.

2. Service as an External Examiner or Referee

External Examiner: UEA Undergraduate Degree in Development Studies 2006-8. Member of the Management Board of an EC Marie Curie EXT Award 2006-11.

Member of the Research Advisory Board of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. PhD Viva examinations for the Universities of Cambridge (2002); Stockholm (2003, 2011); Oxford (2004, 2007); the Central European University, Budapest (2006); Rhodes University, Grahamstown, (2006); Sheffield (2007); UCL (2007); Kent (2009), Sydney (2010) and the University of Manchester (2010 twice), SOAS (2011); IDS (2011). I was also invited to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris for a continuation review (2011).

Reviewer for research proposals for the ESRC, the Royal Society (Newton Post-Doctoral Fellowships), the National Science Foundation (USA), DfID, the Newton Trust (Cambridge), the Wildlife Conservation Society, Flora and Fauna International, the Welcome Trust and the International Foundation for Science.

Expert assess or and panel member for General Research Grants, Development Research Grants and Post-doctoral Research Grants for the Academy of Finland, Environment and Society Panel.

Reviewer of publications for Africa, African Affairs, Agricultural Systems, American Anthropologist, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Area, Biological Conservation, Conservation Biology, Conservation and Society, Development and Change, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Science and Policy, Geoforum, Geographical Journal, Global Environmental Change, Human Ecology, Human Organisation, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Environment and Development, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Local Environments, Mountain Research and Development, Oryx, Natural Areas Journal, Policy Matters, Society and Natural Resources, Transformations and World Development.

Invited reviewer of book proposals and manuscripts for Routledge, James Currey, Earthscan, Berg and Blackwells.