香港六合彩中特网

E-mail: p.burnham@ucl.ac.uk

PhD, Social Anthropology
University of California Los Angeles, 1972

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, 香港六合彩中特网

Some Publications Relevant to HERG

2000 鈥淲hose Forest? Whose Myth? - Conceptualisations of Community Forests in Cameroon鈥�. In Allen Abramson & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (eds.) Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries. London: Pluto Press, pp. 31-58.

2004 (with Monica Graziani) 鈥淟egal Pluralism in the Rain Forests of Southeastern Cameroon鈥�.听In K. Homewood (ed.)听Rural Resources & Local Livelihoods in Africa.听Oxford: James Currey, pp. 177-197.

2008 (with Ruth Malleson et. al.)听鈥淎 Methodology for Assessing Rural Livelihood Strategies in West/Central Africa: Lessons from the Field鈥�. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology. Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-12.

2012听"Climate Change and Forest Conservation: a REDD Flag for Central African Forest People?". In A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor and David W. Brokensha (eds.) Climate Change and Threatened Communities: Vulnerability, Capacity and Action. Bourton-on-Dunsmore: Practical Action Publishing, pp. 15-27.

2016 (with Jos茅-Mar铆a Mu帽oz)听"Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project". In Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak (eds.) An Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

General Interests

• Comparative ethnographic and historical studies of African societies
• Social ecology of swidden farmers and pastoralists
• Cultural and institutional factors affecting social and economic development
• Inter-ethnic political relations

Areas of Recent Focus

Growing out of my long-term work on the cultural and institutional context of rainforest conservation in Cameroon, including advisory work for the British government's forestry research programme, I have recently been focusing on REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) and PES (payment for ecological services) initiatives promoted by international organisations such as the World Bank and by various national governments.

Another topic of recent interest has been the concept of corporate social responsibility, particularly as it is relevant to large scale infrastructural development projects in Africa. This interest derives from my experience of work as a socio-economic impact assessment consultant for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project, as well as my research on the informal business sector in Cameroon.