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 School of Geography and the Environment

Human Ecology Publications

2007

  • Lawrence, A. (2007) Beyond the second generation: towards adaptiveness in participatory forest management, Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 2, No. 028

2006

  • Lawrence, A. (in press) "No personal motive?" Volunteers, biodiversity and the false dichotomies of participation. Ethics, Place and Environment preprint available here, please contact the author for the final accepted version
  • Lawrence A. and Hawthorne W. (2006) Plant identification: creating user-friendly field guides for biodiversity management. Earthscan, London. 268 pp. Buy it! (10% off direct from the publisher)
  • Lawrence, A., Phillips, O.L., Ismodes, A.R., Lopez, M. Rose, S., Wood, D. and Farfan, A.J. (2005) Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 45-79
  • Hamilton, A., Durbeck, K., and Lawrence, A. (2006) Towards a sustainable harvest: A work in hand. Plant Talk, 43:32-35 2005
  • Lawrence A. and Szabo A. (2006) Ethics and culture in the forestry profession: emergent changes in post-communist Romania. Silva Carelica: special issue on Forest Ethics.
  • Menton, M. C., Merry, F. D., Brown, N. D. and Lawrence, A. (2006) Logging Contracts in Settlement Communities on the Amazon Frontier: Collective Action and Long-Term Viability. Journal of Sustainable Forestry

    • Papers for conferences:

  • Read abstract from Anna Lawrence's 2006 Annual distinguished ethnobotanist lecture.
  • Lawrence, A. Reluctant citizens? The disjuncture between participatory biological monitoring and participatory environmental governance. Presented at the "International Conference on Environment, Knowledge and Democracy", Marseilles, July 2005.
  • Lawrence A. and Turnhout E. Personal meaning in the public space: the bureaucratisation of biodiversity data in the UK and the Netherlands. Accepted for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2005: session on Environmental Governance in the Era of Aarhus.
  • Lawrence A., Molteno S., Luke A. and Regan S. Joining up locally – making sense of LBAP diversity. Invited paper presented at the DEFRA Annual Conference for Biodiversity Partners, Bristol, 15 June 2005.
  • Lawrence A. Second army or straw chiefs? Effects of legal reforms on forestry governance in Romania. 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, session on Effects of Postsocialist Transformations on Land Use and Agrarian Institutions. 9-13 Oct 2005, Bonn, Germany.
  • Plant Identification - creating user-friendly field guides for biodiversity management. In press. Download chapter 2 here
  • Lawrence, A. and Szabo, A. Forest restitution in Romania: challenging the value systems of foresters and farmers. Human Ecology Working Paper 05/01.

2005

  • Lawrence, A., Phillips, O., Reategui, A., Lopez, M., Rose, S., Wood, D. and José, A. 2005. Local values for harvested forest plants in Madre de Dios, Peru : towards a more contextualised interpretation of quantitative ethnobotanical data. Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 45-79

2004

  • Lawrence A. and Gillett S. (2004) Collaborative Forest Management. In: Burley J., Evans J. and Youngquist J. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Forest Sciences. Elsevier, Oxford.
  • Lawrence A. (2004) Social values. In: Burley J., Evans J. and Youngquist J. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Forest Sciences, pp. 1126-1131. Elsevier, Oxford.
  • Lawrence, A. and Gillett, S. BioWatch Workshop Report: Why Involve Volunteers in Biodiversity Monitoring? Summary of the BioWatch UK Workshop, 20 th October 2003. Sarah Gillett and Anna Lawrence (Eds).
  • Sheil, D. & Lawrence, A. (2004) Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19: 634-638.

2003

  • Lawrence A. (2003) (Ed) NTFPs revisited. Special Issue of International Forestry Review 5(2): June 2003.
  • Lawrence A, Wells A, Gillett S and van Rijsoort J, 2003. Policy Briefing paper: Participatory assessment monitoring and evaluation of Biodiversity: A briefing paper for planners, policy makers and advisers. Oxford, UK. Environmental Change Institute. 4pp
  • Lawrence A., Oliver Phillips, Adela Reategui, Marcial Lopez, Sam Rose, David Wood, and Alejandro José (in press) Local values for harvested forest plants in Madre de Dios, Peru: towards a more contextualised interpretation of quantitative ethnobotanical data. Biodiversity and Conservation.
  • Lawrence A. (2003) Participatory ecological monitoring in protected areas. In: Jaireth H. and Smyth D. (eds) Innovative Governance: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Protected Areas, pp. 249-267. IUCN. Ane Books, New Delhi.
  • Lawrence A. (2003) No forest without timber? International Forestry Review 5 (2): 3-10.
  • Lawrence A. (2003) (ed) NTFPs revisited. Special Issue of International Forestry Review 5 (2): June 2003.
  • Shrestha, Pratap, Morag McDonald, Anna Lawrence and Fergus Sinclair (2003) Combining Local Knowledge in Developing Soil and Water Management Interventions to Minimise Soil and Nutrient Losses in the Middle Hills of Nepal: Using a Participatory Technology Development Approach. Paper presented in a symposium on "Renewable Natural Resource Management for Mountain Communities", 24-25 February 2003 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
  • Lawrence A. and van Rijsoort, J. (2003) A practical guide to participatory biodiversity assessment. In UNEP (ed) Biodiversity Assessment: a methods manual for practitioners. UNEP / World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
  • Lawrence A., Malla Y. B., Paudel K. C. and Barnes R. 2003. Why biodiversity? A holistic approach to participatory monitoring of community forestry in Nepal. Proceedings of International Conference on Himalayan Biodiversity, 26-28 February Kathmandu, Nepal.
  • McDonald M., A. Lawrence and P. Shrestha. (2003) Soil erosion. In: Schroth G. and Sinclair F.L. (eds) Trees, Crops and Soil Fertility, pp. 325-344. CAB International.

2002

2001

  • Lawrence A. (2001) Creating New Knowledge for Soil and Water Conservation in Bolivia. In: R. Jeffery and B. Vira (eds.) Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management, pp. 171-188. Palgrave, London.