A special issue of Land Degradation and Development on "Environmental Histories, Access to Resources and Landscape Change" [10(4): 279-396, 1999]. The papers arose from a conviction that 'resource use histories' help explain contemporary and past landscapes, and more sophistication is required in their analysis. The editors are Simon Batterbury and Tony Bebbington. Reprints are available from individual authors. Contents: Batterbury, Simon .P.J.; Antony.J. Bebbington. Environmental Histories, Access to Resources and Landscape Change: An Introduction. pp 279-288. ; Conte , Chris. "The Forest Becomes Desert". Forest use and environmental change in Tanzania's West Usambara Mountains. pp289-307; Naughton-Treves, Lisa. Whose Animals? A history of property rights to wildlife in Toro, western Uganda. pp309-326; Gray, Lesley. C. Is Land Being Degraded? A multi-scale examination of landscape in southwestern Burkina Faso. pp327-341; Turner. Matt. No Space for Participation: Pastoralist narratives and the etiology of park-herder conflict in Southwestern Niger. pp343-361 ; Klooster, Dan. Community-based forestry in Mexico: can it reverse processes of forest degradation? pp363-379 ; Endfield, Georgina H.; O'Hara, Sarah L. Perception or Deception: Land degradation in post-conquest Michoacan, west-central Mexico. pp381-396
Batterbury, S. P. J.; Bebbington, A. J. 1999. Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change. Land Degradation and Development 10(4):279-396.