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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. Epidemics

   Science, Governance and Social Justice

   Edited by Melissa Leach, Sarah Dry

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
3. Dynamic Sustainabilities

   Technology, Environment, Social Justice

   Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...

   Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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