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1. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

   Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called...

   To Be Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Vaccine Anxieties

   Global Science, Child Health and Society

   By Melissa Leach, James Fairhead

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological...

   Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge
3. Reframing Deforestation

   Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa

   By James Fairhead, Melissa Leach

   This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors...

   Published June 3rd 1998 by Routledge