"The role of institutions for forest resource and livelihood management in East African forest landscapes"

Regional Research

Balgis Osman Elasha, Nagmeldin Goutbi Elhassan, Hanafi Ahmed, and Sumaya Zakieldin 2005. Sustainable livelihood approach for assessing community resilience to climate change: Case studies from Sudan, AIACC Working Paper No.17, August 2005.

Banana, Abwoli, Joseph Bahati, William Gombya-Ssembajjwe and Nathan Vogt. 2008. "Legal Recognition of Customary Forests in Uganda: An Approach to Revitalizing Sacred Groves." African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change. ed. Micheal J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru, 195-206. Oxford : James Currey ; Athens, OH : Ohio University Press.

Banana, A. and Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W. 2000. Successful forest management: The importance of security of tenure and rule enforcement in Ugandan forests. In: People and Forests. Communities, Institutions and Governance. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press

Banana, A., Vogt, N.D., Bahati, J. And William Gombya-Ssembajjwe 2007. Decentralized governance and ecological health: Why local institutions fail to moderate deforestation in Mpigi district of Uganda. Scientific Research and Essay 2(10): 434-445

Barrow, E., Gichohi, H. and M. Infield (2000): Rhetoric or Reality? A Review of Community Conservation Policy and Practice in East Africa. January 2000.

Gole, T.W. 2003. Vegetation of the Yayu forest in SW Ethiopia: impacts of human use and implicationsfor in-situ conservation of wild Coffea Arabica L. populations. Ecology and Development Series No.10. Göttingen: Cuvillier

Kajembe, G.C., E. J. Luoga, M. S. Kijazi, C. S. Mwaipopo. The role of traditional institutions in the conservation of forest resources in East Usambara, Tanzania. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, Volume 10, Issue 2 June 2003 , pages 101 - 107

Mugabi, P., Rypstra, T., Vermaas, H. F., & Nel, D. G. (2009). Relationships between drying defect parameters and some growth characteristics in kiln-dried South African grown Eucalyptus grandis poles. European Journal of Wood and Wood Products.

Mugabi, P., Rypstra, T., Vermaas, H. F., & Nel, D. G. (2009). Effect of kiln drying schedule on the quality of South African grown Eucalyptus grandis pole.

Mugabi, P., Rypstra, T., Vermaas, H. F., & Nel, D. G. (2009). Suitability of auger drill sampling for the measurement of moisture content gradient in kiln-dried South African grown Eucalyptus grandis poles.

Stellmacher, T. 2007. Governing the Ethiopian coffee forests: a local level institutional analysis in Kaffa and Bale mountains. Aachen: Shaker. available at: Thesis online, University of Bonn

Turyahabwe, N., C. J. Geldenhuys, S. Watts and A. Y. Banana. 2006. "Technical and Institutional Capacity in Local Organisations to Manage Decentralised Forest Resources in Uganda." Southern African Forestry Journal. No. 208, November, pp. 63-78.

Turyahabwe, N., C. J. Geldenhuys, S. Watts and M. Tweheyo 2008. Linking forest tenure and anthropogenic factors with institutions and the effectiveness of management in Mpigi forests, central Uganda. Southern Forests. Vol. 70, Issue 3, pp. 255-267.

Vogt, N. D., A. Y. Banana, W. Gombya-Ssembajjwe and J. Bahati. 2006. Understanding the stability of forest reserve boundaries in the West Mengo region of Uganda. Ecology and Society 11(1): 38.

Vogt, N. Bahati, J. Unruh, J. Green, G. Banana, A. Gombya-Ssembajjwe, W. Sweeney, S. 2006. INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING DATA AND RAPID APPRAISALS FOR LAND-COVER CHANGE ANALYSES IN UGANDA. Land Degrad. Develop. 17: 31–43.

Wollenberg, Eva, Leticia Merino, Arun Agrawal, and Elinor Ostrom. 2007. “Fourteen Years of Monitoring Community-Managed Forests: Learning from IFRI’s Experience.” International Forestry Review 9(2): 670–84.

Zewdie, J. 2005. The influence of indigenous institutions in the conservation and use of coffea arabica: The case of Yayu and Kafa of Southwest Ethiopia. MSc Thesis, Ethiopia

Zziwa, A., M. Bukenya, O. E. Sseremba and R.K. Kyeyune (2006): Non-traditional tree species used in the furniture industry in Masaka District, Central Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences 12 (1): 55-66. National Agricultural Research Organisation. Kampala, Uganda.

Zziwa A., Kaboggoza J. R. S., Mwakali .A, Banana, A. Y. and Kyeyune R.K. (2006). Physical and Mechanical Properties of Some Less Utilised Tropical Timber Tree Species Growing in Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences (UJAS).

Zziwa A., Kizito S., Banana A. Y. Kaboggoza J. R. S, Kambugu R. K. and Sseremba O. E. (2006). Production of Composite Bricks from Sawdust Using Portland cement as a Binder. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences (UJAS).

Zziwa, A., Ziraba, Y. N. & Mwakali, J. A. (2009). Timber use practices in Uganda’s building construction industry: current situation and future prospects. Journal of the Institute of Wood Science, 19: 48-53.

General Literature

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