Beyond Proprietorship. Murphree�s Laws on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa: Murphree�s Laws on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

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201 Contents Billy Mukamuri is a full-time lecturer and researcher at CASS. His research interests are on understanding local level institutional dynamics, particularly in communal areas. He has published extensively on social forestry issues, largely from south central Zimbabwe. He also published articles on the impacts of macro-economic changes and their impacts on natural resources management and rural people’s livelihoods. Jeannette Manjengwa is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS), University of Zimbabwe. She is the Team Leader of the IDRC-funded Local Level Scenario Planning, Iterative Assessment and Adaptive Management project, a regional research and development initiative being implemented with communities in the Great Limpopo Trans-Frontier Conservation Area. Simon Anstey is a researcher and a PhD student at CASS. His thesis is based on local environmental and political processes in Mozambique. He has worked for the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Jordan and is currently a consultant on natural resources projects in southern Africa. Frank Chinembiri is a PhD student at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe. He was a livestock specialist for the Department of Agricultural Extension and Technical Services for many years and is currently a consultant for the FAO sub-regional Office in Zimbabwe. Chaka Chirozva holds a Masters in Social Ecology degree from the University of Zimbabwe, and is a former post-graduate student at CASS. He is a facilitator for the Local Level Scenario Planning, Iterative Assessment and Adaptive Management project. Ben Cousins is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS). Notes on Contributors 202 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS His main research interests are common property management, land tenure reform, livestock production and communal rangeland dynamics, rural social differentiation and poverty, and the politics of land and agrarian reform. Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at the Centre for International Politics Manchester University, UK. She researches global environmental governance, transfrontier conservation areas, the environmental impact of illicit trading networks, the international politics of wildlife conservation and the politics of tourism. Mike Jones has led a Community Based Conservation Network programme in Africa for the Sand County Foundation since 2001. He was part of a team that developed the Campfire programme in Matabeleland from 1989 and since then has worked on various community based conservation initiatives in different parts of southern and eastern Africa. Tim Lynam holds a PhD degree and is an independent consultant currently working in Mozambique’s Manica Province. He has carried out household baseline surveys in most of Campfire areas and was instrumental in generating socio-economic data for the Campfire Project in the late 1980s. Rowan B. Martin is an ecologist and wildlife management specialist in Zimbabwe. He worked in the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in the 1980s and was instrumental in the conceptualisation and implementation of Campfire. Bright Mombeshora holds an MSc from the University of Ile Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo) in Nigeria. He has worked as a senior research scientist under the Department Agricultural Research and Extension for more than 25 years. Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya is a PhD student at the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State in South Africa, and formerly a Research Associate at CASS. She is involved in a collaborative project between Zimbabwe and Zambia on ‘Building Adaptive Capacity to Deal with Vulnerability due to Climate Change’. Shylock Muyengwa is a graduate student at the University of Florida School of Natural Resources and Environment and Managing Editor of the African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal for Africa Studies. He has worked with CASS since 2003, and has conducted research on CBNRM in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. 203 204 ...