Laura A German
Biographic Data
| ID | 95315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura A German |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura A |
| FAMILY NAME | German |
| SIGNATURE | GERMAN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4943-4515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation
This paper explores the significance of current paradigms for connecting across difference in environmental governance, with a focus on dominant practices and the erasures that occur in the process. It focuses on three core concepts and corresponding practices: rights (adhering to both persons and property, procedural, and substantive); recognition (of harms done, of those harmed, or of those deserving of special recognition); and participation (…
A 'cultural transformation' at the US Department of Agriculture: Examining racial (in)equality through federal farmland protection programs in Georgia
Over the past several decades the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a 'Cultural Transformation Initiative' aimed at addressing racial discrimination. Yet recent work from a wide range of sources questions whether these efforts have resulted in meaningful material transformations to USDA governance. This article focuses on one of the USDA's main farmland protection programs and analyzes the extent to which it challenges and/or reproduce…
Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa
Environmental governance: Broadening ontological spaces for a more livable world
This paper contributes to global debates on environmental governance by drawing on recent ontological scholarship to ask: What would it mean to ontologically engage the concept of environmental governance? By examining the ontological underpinnings of three environmental governance domains (land, water, biodiversity), we find that dominant contemporary environmental governance concepts and policy instruments are grounded in a modernist ontology w…
Decentering emergent truths on tenure security: Archaeology of a global knowledge regime
Land governance has taken center stage in global development discourse and practice. 'Respect for land rights', 'women's land rights' and 'tenure security' have emerged as central concepts, with tenure formalization and community consultation emerging as key instruments through which these aims are advanced. A long history of scholarship questioning the benefits of titling and consultation and highlighting attendant risks seems to have been burie…
The environmental effects of sugarcane expansion: A case study of changes in land and water use in southern Africa
Governance of Payments for Ecosystem Ecosystem services influences social and environmental outcomes in Costa Rica
Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains
"The social construction of "shared growth: Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit
Recent years have witnessed a growing trend in agricultural investment and large-scale farmland acquisition in the Global South and a rapid expansion of scholarship and public debate over the nature, consequences, and desirability of these trends. The polarization of this debate into "win/lose" narratives raises the question of whether, and under what conditions, the logic of capital accumulation driving farmland acquisition and investment can en…
Catalyzing self-governance: Addressing multi-faceted collective action dilemmas in densely settled agrarian landscapes
This paper summarizes lessons learnt from efforts to pilot institutional innovations to address locally salient natural resource management challenges in the eastern African highlands, where dense human settlement and steep slopes lead to a tight coupling of interactions among adjacent land users, landholdings and property regimes. The collective action problems present in these heterogeneous landscapes include common pool resource dilemmas, as w…
Constraints, multiple stressors, and stratified adaptation: Pastoralist livelihood vulnerability in a semi-arid wildlife conservation context in Central Kenya
Unevenness in scale mismatches: Institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology in Laikipia, Kenya
Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons
The dynamics of customary land rights and displacement among east African pastoralists have been the subject of extensive scholarly inquiry. Displacement to make way for other land uses, government-led privatization schemes, endogenous subdivision to defend land against outsiders, and progressive enclosure of private land in the context of the recent 'land rush' are some of the documented trajectories of land tenure change. Less explored is how e…
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
Translating Legal Rights into Tenure Security: Lessons from the New Commercial Pressures on Land in Ghana
Since the confluence of the food and oil price crises of the mid 2000s, Ghana has become a prime destination for large-scale farmland investments. While this trend could make valuable contributions to an ailing agricultural sector, the alienation of rural land for commercial ends could conversely have far-reaching implications for customary land rights. Through an analysis of the legislation protecting customary land rights and governing such the…
Customary rights and societal stakes of large-scale tobacco cultivation in Malawi
Multi-Sited Governance of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Mapping and Evaluating the Terrain
Recent spikes in commodity prices, the growing appetite for primary commodities among emerging economies, growing interest in biofuels and speculations over future returns to land and its products have led to a renewed interest in farmland in the global South. With highly publicized risks and polarized "win-lose" narratives, so-called "land grabbing" has become an important focus of transnational governance activity. In juxtaposition to those see…
Shifting rights, property and authority in the forest frontier: Stakes' for Local Land Users and Citizens
Customary land and forests are more embedded in the global economy than ever. With globally significant supplies of land and raw materials and favorable terms for foreign investors, developing countries - particularly in Africa - have become increasingly attractive trade partners and destinations for investors. Increasing competition over land is placing new pressures on vast tracts of forest and woodland, areas often considered 'under-utilized' …
Assessing Societal Benefits and Trade-Offs of Tobacco in the Miombo Woodlands of Malawi
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of the Rule of Law
Biofuel Investments in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Review of the Early Legal and Institutional Framework in Zambia
Concerns about domestic energy security and global climate change mitigation have led the European Union, the United States, and others to introduce policies to enhance the use of biofuels in the transport sector fuel mix. While countries throughout the global South are positioning themselves to capture the economic benefits of this fuel transition, their capacity to do so is highly variable. This paper reviews the early evolution of the biofuel …
Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo
Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Global Comparative Assessment and Implications for Governance
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco. 2011. Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: global comparative assessment and implications for governance. Ecology and Society 16(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04516-160429
Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana
Schoneveld , G. C., L. A. German, and E. Nutakor. 2011. Land-based investments for rural development? A grounded analysis of the local impacts of biofuel feedstock plantations in Ghana. Ecology and Society 16(4): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04424-160410
The Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Cultivation: Evidence from Multi-Site Research in the Forest Frontier
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco 2011. The social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock cultivation: evidence from multi-site research in the forest frontier. Ecology and Society 16(3): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04309-160324
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of the Rule of Law
Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana
Schoneveld , G. C., L. A. German, and E. Nutakor. 2011. Land-based investments for rural development? A grounded analysis of the local impacts of biofuel feedstock plantations in Ghana. Ecology and Society 16(4): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04424-160410
Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons
The dynamics of customary land rights and displacement among east African pastoralists have been the subject of extensive scholarly inquiry. Displacement to make way for other land uses, government-led privatization schemes, endogenous subdivision to defend land against outsiders, and progressive enclosure of private land in the context of the recent 'land rush' are some of the documented trajectories of land tenure change. Less explored is how e…
Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains
Environmental governance: Broadening ontological spaces for a more livable world
This paper contributes to global debates on environmental governance by drawing on recent ontological scholarship to ask: What would it mean to ontologically engage the concept of environmental governance? By examining the ontological underpinnings of three environmental governance domains (land, water, biodiversity), we find that dominant contemporary environmental governance concepts and policy instruments are grounded in a modernist ontology w…
Shifting rights, property and authority in the forest frontier: Stakes' for Local Land Users and Citizens
Customary land and forests are more embedded in the global economy than ever. With globally significant supplies of land and raw materials and favorable terms for foreign investors, developing countries - particularly in Africa - have become increasingly attractive trade partners and destinations for investors. Increasing competition over land is placing new pressures on vast tracts of forest and woodland, areas often considered 'under-utilized' …
Ecological Praxis and Blackwater Ecosystems: A Case Study From the Brazilian Amazon
Decentering emergent truths on tenure security: Archaeology of a global knowledge regime
Land governance has taken center stage in global development discourse and practice. 'Respect for land rights', 'women's land rights' and 'tenure security' have emerged as central concepts, with tenure formalization and community consultation emerging as key instruments through which these aims are advanced. A long history of scholarship questioning the benefits of titling and consultation and highlighting attendant risks seems to have been burie…
Constraints, multiple stressors, and stratified adaptation: Pastoralist livelihood vulnerability in a semi-arid wildlife conservation context in Central Kenya
Unevenness in scale mismatches: Institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology in Laikipia, Kenya
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
The Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Cultivation: Evidence from Multi-Site Research in the Forest Frontier
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco 2011. The social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock cultivation: evidence from multi-site research in the forest frontier. Ecology and Society 16(3): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04309-160324
Hybrid institutions”: Applications of common property theory beyond discrete tenure regimes
Property rights theory has contributed a great deal to global understanding of the factors shaping the management, governance and sustainability of discrete property regimes (individual, State, commons). Yet as the commons become increasingly altered and enclosed and management challenges extend beyond the boundaries of any given unit of property, institutional theory must extend beyond discrete property regimes. This paper argues that as natural…
Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo
A 'cultural transformation' at the US Department of Agriculture: Examining racial (in)equality through federal farmland protection programs in Georgia
Over the past several decades the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a 'Cultural Transformation Initiative' aimed at addressing racial discrimination. Yet recent work from a wide range of sources questions whether these efforts have resulted in meaningful material transformations to USDA governance. This article focuses on one of the USDA's main farmland protection programs and analyzes the extent to which it challenges and/or reproduce…
Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Global Comparative Assessment and Implications for Governance
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco. 2011. Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: global comparative assessment and implications for governance. Ecology and Society 16(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04516-160429
Catalyzing self-governance: Addressing multi-faceted collective action dilemmas in densely settled agrarian landscapes
This paper summarizes lessons learnt from efforts to pilot institutional innovations to address locally salient natural resource management challenges in the eastern African highlands, where dense human settlement and steep slopes lead to a tight coupling of interactions among adjacent land users, landholdings and property regimes. The collective action problems present in these heterogeneous landscapes include common pool resource dilemmas, as w…
The Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Smallholder-Based Biofuel Investments in Zambia
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and D. Gumbo. 2011. The local social and environmental impacts of smallholder-based biofuel investments in Zambia. Ecology and Society 16(4): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04280-160412
A methodology for tracking the “fate” of technological interventions in agriculture
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation
This paper explores the significance of current paradigms for connecting across difference in environmental governance, with a focus on dominant practices and the erasures that occur in the process. It focuses on three core concepts and corresponding practices: rights (adhering to both persons and property, procedural, and substantive); recognition (of harms done, of those harmed, or of those deserving of special recognition); and participation (…
Assessing Societal Benefits and Trade-Offs of Tobacco in the Miombo Woodlands of Malawi
Managing Linkages Between Communal Rangelands and Private Cropland in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: Contributions to Participatory Integrated Watershed Management
Rapid cultural, political–economic, and environmental change in eastern Africa has strained traditional management systems that once provided for basic needs while largely maintaining ecosystem function. Rangelands are increasingly defined by decreased productivity, water resource degradation, and conflict. Seasonal shifts between restricted and open access and communal and private property regimes create strong functional linkages that define pr…
A Framework for the Integration of Diverse Learning Approaches: Operationalizing Agricultural Research and Development (R&D) Linkages in Eastern Africa
"The social construction of "shared growth: Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit
Recent years have witnessed a growing trend in agricultural investment and large-scale farmland acquisition in the Global South and a rapid expansion of scholarship and public debate over the nature, consequences, and desirability of these trends. The polarization of this debate into "win/lose" narratives raises the question of whether, and under what conditions, the logic of capital accumulation driving farmland acquisition and investment can en…
Multi-Sited Governance of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Mapping and Evaluating the Terrain
Recent spikes in commodity prices, the growing appetite for primary commodities among emerging economies, growing interest in biofuels and speculations over future returns to land and its products have led to a renewed interest in farmland in the global South. With highly publicized risks and polarized "win-lose" narratives, so-called "land grabbing" has become an important focus of transnational governance activity. In juxtaposition to those see…
Ethnoscientific Understandings of Amazonian Dark Earths
A Geographical Method for Anthrosol Characterization in Amazonia: Contributions to Method and Human Ecological Theory
Sequential P Fractionation of Relict Anthropogenic Dark Earths of Amazonia
Ecological Praxis and Blackwater Ecosystems: A Case Study From the Brazilian Amazon
Social and environmental trade-offs in tree species selection: A methodology for identifying niche incompatibilities in agroforestry
A methodology for tracking the “fate” of technological interventions in agriculture
A Framework for the Integration of Diverse Learning Approaches: Operationalizing Agricultural Research and Development (R&D) Linkages in Eastern Africa
Managing Linkages Between Communal Rangelands and Private Cropland in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: Contributions to Participatory Integrated Watershed Management
Rapid cultural, political–economic, and environmental change in eastern Africa has strained traditional management systems that once provided for basic needs while largely maintaining ecosystem function. Rangelands are increasingly defined by decreased productivity, water resource degradation, and conflict. Seasonal shifts between restricted and open access and communal and private property regimes create strong functional linkages that define pr…
Hybrid institutions”: Applications of common property theory beyond discrete tenure regimes
Property rights theory has contributed a great deal to global understanding of the factors shaping the management, governance and sustainability of discrete property regimes (individual, State, commons). Yet as the commons become increasingly altered and enclosed and management challenges extend beyond the boundaries of any given unit of property, institutional theory must extend beyond discrete property regimes. This paper argues that as natural…
Minimizing the Livelihood Trade-Offs of Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands: "Policy Implications of a Project in "Creative Governance
Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Global Comparative Assessment and Implications for Governance
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco. 2011. Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: global comparative assessment and implications for governance. Ecology and Society 16(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04516-160429
Land-based Investments for Rural Development? A Grounded Analysis of the Local Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Plantations in Ghana
Schoneveld , G. C., L. A. German, and E. Nutakor. 2011. Land-based investments for rural development? A grounded analysis of the local impacts of biofuel feedstock plantations in Ghana. Ecology and Society 16(4): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04424-160410
The Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Feedstock Cultivation: Evidence from Multi-Site Research in the Forest Frontier
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and P. Pacheco 2011. The social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock cultivation: evidence from multi-site research in the forest frontier. Ecology and Society 16(3): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04309-160324
The Local Social and Environmental Impacts of Smallholder-Based Biofuel Investments in Zambia
German, L., G. C. Schoneveld, and D. Gumbo. 2011. The local social and environmental impacts of smallholder-based biofuel investments in Zambia. Ecology and Society 16(4): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04280-160412
Biofuel Investments in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Review of the Early Legal and Institutional Framework in Zambia
Concerns about domestic energy security and global climate change mitigation have led the European Union, the United States, and others to introduce policies to enhance the use of biofuels in the transport sector fuel mix. While countries throughout the global South are positioning themselves to capture the economic benefits of this fuel transition, their capacity to do so is highly variable. This paper reviews the early evolution of the biofuel …
Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of the Rule of Law
Translating Legal Rights into Tenure Security: Lessons from the New Commercial Pressures on Land in Ghana
Since the confluence of the food and oil price crises of the mid 2000s, Ghana has become a prime destination for large-scale farmland investments. While this trend could make valuable contributions to an ailing agricultural sector, the alienation of rural land for commercial ends could conversely have far-reaching implications for customary land rights. Through an analysis of the legislation protecting customary land rights and governing such the…
Customary rights and societal stakes of large-scale tobacco cultivation in Malawi
Multi-Sited Governance of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Mapping and Evaluating the Terrain
Recent spikes in commodity prices, the growing appetite for primary commodities among emerging economies, growing interest in biofuels and speculations over future returns to land and its products have led to a renewed interest in farmland in the global South. With highly publicized risks and polarized "win-lose" narratives, so-called "land grabbing" has become an important focus of transnational governance activity. In juxtaposition to those see…
Shifting rights, property and authority in the forest frontier: Stakes' for Local Land Users and Citizens
Customary land and forests are more embedded in the global economy than ever. With globally significant supplies of land and raw materials and favorable terms for foreign investors, developing countries - particularly in Africa - have become increasingly attractive trade partners and destinations for investors. Increasing competition over land is placing new pressures on vast tracts of forest and woodland, areas often considered 'under-utilized' …
Assessing Societal Benefits and Trade-Offs of Tobacco in the Miombo Woodlands of Malawi
Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique
Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons
The dynamics of customary land rights and displacement among east African pastoralists have been the subject of extensive scholarly inquiry. Displacement to make way for other land uses, government-led privatization schemes, endogenous subdivision to defend land against outsiders, and progressive enclosure of private land in the context of the recent 'land rush' are some of the documented trajectories of land tenure change. Less explored is how e…
Catalyzing self-governance: Addressing multi-faceted collective action dilemmas in densely settled agrarian landscapes
This paper summarizes lessons learnt from efforts to pilot institutional innovations to address locally salient natural resource management challenges in the eastern African highlands, where dense human settlement and steep slopes lead to a tight coupling of interactions among adjacent land users, landholdings and property regimes. The collective action problems present in these heterogeneous landscapes include common pool resource dilemmas, as w…
Economics (28 works) · Geography (27 works) · Business (26 works) · Political science (21 works) · Agriculture (19 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (14 works) · Natural resource economics (13 works) · Corporate governance (12 works)