Lab publications

In Review

German, L., C. Struthers, J. Abrams, S. Pictou, B. Woodson, S. Kumar, T. Cabe, R. Merino, E. King. Conservation re-imagined: Towards anti-oppressive futures. PNAS Perspectives (invited).

Kumar, S., A. Kaushik, C.R. Hollas, S. Naher, A. Sandeelo, S. Kar and L. German. Ontological self-determination: Re-thinking environmental justice from South Asia. Development and Change.

Popken, L. and L. German. Decolonizing conservation research and practice: A review of Indigenous scholars' perspectives. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Van Rees, C.B., S. Jumani, V. Chaudhary, L.A. German, T. Dekker, S.K. McKay and S.J. Wenger. Guideposts and guardrails for biodiversity accounting in the 21st Century. Conservation Biology.

2023

Arney, R., M. Henderson, H. Deloach, G. Lichtenstein and L. German (2023) Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation. Environment and Planning: Nature and Space 6(2): 1164–1190.

Van Sant, C., L. German and D. Read (2023) A “cultural transformation” at the US Department of Agriculture? Examining racial (in)equality through federal farmland protection programs in Georgia. The Journal of Peasant Studies 50(4): 1636-1660.

2022

German, L. (2022) "Community" agroforestry and landscape restoration: Towards recognition of transboundary and systems effects of tree planting. In: A. Larson (Ed), Routledge Handbook on Community Forestry. London: Routledge.

German, L. (2022) Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa. University of Michigan Press.

Popken, L., P.J. Griffin, C. Coté, C. and E. Angel (2022) Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: Centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles of hišuk?iš c'awaak (Everything is One), ?iisaak (Respect with Caring), and ?u?aałuk (Taking Care of) in Sea Otter management in Canada. Ecology & Society 28(2): 12.

2021

DePuy, W., J. Weger, L.C. Foster, A. Bonanno, S. Kumar, K. Lear, R. Basilio and L. German (2021) Environmental governance: Broadening ontological spaces for a more livable world. Environment and Planning: Nature and Space, 1-29.

German, L. and C.M.T. Braga (2021) Decentering emergent truths on tenure security: Archaeology of a global knowledge regime. The Journal of Peasant Studies 48(6): 1228-1259.

2020

German, L., A. Bonanno, L.C. Foster and L. Cotula (2020) "Inclusive business" in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains. World Development 134(105018), 1-21.

Brownson, K., E.P. Anderson, S. Ferreira, S. Wenger, L. Fowler and L. German (2020) Implications of Payments for Ecosystem Services governance structures for ecosystem services provisioning and human well-being in rural Costa Rica. Ecological Economics 174 (August 2020), 106659.

Chappell, J., L. German, K. McKay and C.M. Pringle (2020) Evaluating mismatches between legislation and practice in maintaining environmental flows. Water 12(8), 2135.

German, L.A., A.M. Bonanno, L.C. Foster and L. Cotula (2020) "Inclusive business" in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains. World Development 134, October 2020, 105018.

German, L., J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, T. Biggs, L. Parker and M. Salinas (2020) The environmental effects of sugarcane expansion: A case study of land use change and water footprint in southern Africa. Applied Geography 121 (August 2020), 102240.

2019

Unks, R., E. King, L. German, N.P. Wachira and D.R. Nelson (2019) Unevenness in scale mismatches: Institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology in Laikipia, Kenya. Geoforum 99 (Feb 2019): 74-87.

Unks, R., E. King, D. Nelson, N. Wachira and L. German (2019) Constraints, multiple stressors, and stratified adaptation: Pastoralist livelihood vulnerability in a semi-arid wildlife conservation context in central Kenya. Global Environmental Change 54: 124-134.

2018

German, L. (2018) Catalyzing self-governance: Addressing multi-faceted collective action dilemmas in densely settled agrarian landscapes. International Journal of the Commons 12: 217-250.

German, L.A. and L. Parker (2018) The social construction of "shared growth": Zambia Sugar and the uneven terrain of social benefit. Journal of Agrarian Change 19(1).

Goetz, A., T. Searchinger, T. Beringer, L. German, B. McKay, G.D.L.T. Oliveira and C. Hunsberger (2018) Reply to commentary on the special issue Scaling up biofuels? A critical look at expectations, performance and governance. Energy Policy 118: 658–665.

Jensen-Ryan, D. and L. German (2018) Environmental science and policy: A meta-synthesis of case studies on boundary organizations and boundary spanning processes. Science and Public Policy, scy032.

2017

de Man, R. and L. German (2017) Certifying the sustainability of biofuels: Promise and reality. Energy Policy 109: 871-883.

German, L., A. Goetz, T. Searchinger, G. de L.T. Oliveira, J. Tomei, C. Hunsberger and J. Weigelt (2017) Sine Qua Nons of sustainable biofuels: Distilling implications of under-performance for national biofuel programs. Energy Policy 108: 806-817.

German, L., E. King, R. Unks and P.W. Naiputari (2017) This side of subdivision: Individualization and collectivization dynamics in a Maasai group ranch held under collective title. Journal of Arid Environments 144: 139–155.

Goetz, A., L. German and C. Hunsberger (2017) Do no harm? Risk perceptions in national bioenergy policies and actual mitigation performance. Energy Policy 108: 776–790.

Goetz, A., L. German and J. Weigelt (2017) Scaling up biofuels? A critical look at expectations, performance and governance. Energy Policy 110: 719–723.

Hunsberger, C., L. German and A. Goetz (2017) "Unbundling" the biofuel promise: Querying the ability of liquid biofuels to deliver on socio-economic policy expectations. Energy Policy 108: 791–805.

King, E.G., R.R. Unks and L. German (2017) Constraints and capacities for novel livelihood adaptation: Lessons from agricultural adoption in an African dryland pastoralist system. Regional Environmental Change 18(5): 1403–1410.

2016

German, L., E. Cavane, A. Sitoe and C. Braga (2016) Private investment as an engine of rural development: A confrontation of theory and practice for the case of Mozambique. Land Use Policy 51(2016): 1–14.

German, L., R. Unks and L. King (2016) Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons. Journal of Peasant Studies. doi 10.1080/03066150.2016.1176562

2015

German, L. (2015) The global land rush: Implications for agricultural communities. CAB Reviews 10(33): 1-19.

Mandondo, A. and L. German (2015) Customary rights and societal stakes of large-scale tobacco cultivation in Malawi. Agriculture and Human Values 32(1): 31-46. doi:10.1007/s10460-014-9514-6

2014

German, L. (2014) Multi-sited governance of large-scale land acquisitions: Mapping the terrain. Review of Policy Research 31(3): 218-252.

German, L. with A. Mandondo, F. Paumgarten and J. Mwitwa (2014) Shifting rights, property & authority in the forest frontier: 'Stakes' for local land users and citizens. Journal of Peasant Studies 41(1): 51–78.

Jensen-Ryan, D. (2014) New technologies, old stories: The forgotten voices of uranium mining in rural Wyoming. The Extractive Industries and Society 1(2):321-328.

Mandondo, A., L. German, H. Utila and U.M. Nthenda (2014) Assessing societal benefits and trade-offs of tobacco in the Miombo woodlands. Human Ecology 42(2014): 1–19.

Schoneveld, G.C. and L. German (2014) Translating legal rights into tenure security: Lessons from the new commercial pressures on land in Ghana. Journal of Development Studies 50(2): 187-203.

Schoneveld, G., L. German and D. Gumbo (2014) The developmental implications of Sino-African economic and political relations: A preliminary assessment for the case of Zambia. CIFOR Working Paper 133.

2013

German, L. and D. Gumbo with G. Schoneveld (2013) Large-scale land acquisitions: Exploring the marginal lands narrative in the Chitemene system of Zambia. QA—Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria 2(2013): 109-135.

German, L., G. Schoneveld and E. Mwangi (2013) Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: Legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? World Development 48(2013): 1–18.

Rantala, S. and L.A. German (2013) Exploring village governance processes behind Community-Based Forest Management: legitimacy and coercion in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. International Forestry Review 15(3): 355-367.

2012

German, L., J. Mowo, T. Amede and K. Masuki (2012) Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice. London: Earthscan.

German, L. and G. Schoneveld (2012) A review of social sustainability considerations among EU-approved voluntary schemes for biofuels, with implications for rural livelihoods. Energy Policy 51(2012): 765-778.

German, L. and G. Schoneveld (2012) Review of the early legal and institutional framework for biofuel investments in Zambia. Review of Policy Research 29(4): 467-491.

German, L.A. and S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff (2012) Sino-Mozambican relations and their implications for forests: A preliminary assessment for the case of Mozambique. CIFOR Working Paper 93.

Mwitwa, J., L. German, M. Ambayeba Kankolongo and A. Puntodewo (2012) Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo. Forest Policy and Economics 25(2012): 19-30.

van Gelder, J.W., L. German and R. Bailis (2012) Biofuels investments in tropical forest-rich countries: Implications for responsible finance. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 3(2): 134-160.

2021

Foster, L.C. and ONAMIAP (2021) Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: A Comparative Review of Implementation and the Participation of Indigenous Women. Lima: Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú.

2017

German, L., K. Foster, A. Bonanno, L. Cotula, A. Locke and J. Quan (2017) Land Governance and Inclusive Business in Agriculture: Advancing the Debate. LEGEND State of the Debate Report 2017. London: Overseas Development Institute.

Read, D.J., C. Anscombe, L. Van Sant, L. German and A. Jagadish (2017) County-level relationship between principal producers of color and prime, unique, and important soils in Georgia. Land Notes 6. Available at: http://iglab.uga.edu/landnotes.html.

2016

German, L., A. Goetz, T. Searchinger, J. Tomei, G. de Oliveira and C. Hunsberger (2016) Sine qua nons of sustainable bioenergy: Distilling implications of under-performance for national biofuel programmes. IASS Working Paper. Potsdam, Germany: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2312/iass.2016.024

German, L. and E. King (2016) Nalare: A community reflection on experiences with the conservancy movement in northern Kenya. Land Notes 4.

Read, D., L. German, J. Weger, A. Jagadish, U. Kalita and L. van Sant (2016) A method for identifying "best bet" counties for advancing equitable access to USDA programs: The case of agricultural land easements. Land Notes 4.

2014

Cavane, E., L. German, A. Sitoe and C. Braga (2014) Sistematização das experiências da iTC na delimitação e demarcação de terras comunitárias e parcerias: Síntese de resultados e recomendaçőes. Land Notes 3.

ORAM Nampula and L. German (2014) Metodologia para o zoneamento participativo e a avaliação da compatibilidade do investimento privado com os usos actuais da terra e as aspiraçőes locais. Land Notes 1.

2012

German, L.A., A.-M. Tiani, A. Daoudi, T. Mutimukuru Maravanyika, E. Chuma, C. Jum, N. Nemarundwe, E. Ontita and G. Yitamben (2012) The Application of Participatory Action Research to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: A Reference Guide. IDRC and CIFOR.