James Fairhead

78 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? 2012 · 1.2k citations
1.2k19962026200620164008001.2k

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James Fairhead
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  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.1k
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.7k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 667
  • Forestry 207
  • Geography, Planning and Development 231
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside James Fairhead, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
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20121219
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Misreading the African Landscape
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1996592
3 1995221
4
Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
1998197
5 2005146
6 2006131
7 2000116
8 2014102
9 2014101
10 201299
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Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean
200397
12 201690
13 199776
14 201676
15 200069
16 200665
17 201664
18 200463
19 200550
20 200248

About James Fairhead

James Fairhead is a scholar working on Anthropology, Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Health and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 86 papers that have together received 4.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (32 papers), African history and culture studies (12 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (9 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (7 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (1.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.7k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (667 citations), Forestry (207 citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (231 citations). James Fairhead has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, James A. Fraser, Annie Wilkinson, Alexander Dunlap, Jackie Cassell, H. J. van Hensbergen, P. Trutmann, Mark K. Leach and Ann H. Kelly. Their work appears in journals such as IDS Bulletin, Social Science & Medicine, Africa, African Studies Review and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

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