Resources
Key Publications by Wetland Action EEIG Members and Wetland Action Network Associates
Dixon AB, Mvula A and Carrie RC (2020) A Functional Landscape Approach to managing wetland social-ecological systems: Experiences from the Kankhulukulu project in Malawi. Working Paper, The University of Worcester and Wetland Action.
Self Help Africa (2020) Functional Landscape Approach. Position Paper 4, Self Help Africa, Dublin .
Mvula, A and Dixon AB (2020) Farmer experiences of Tiyeni’s ‘deep-bed’ farming system in Malawi. Research Briefing April 2020, University of Worcester.
McElwee, G and Wood, A. (2018) ‘Wetland entrepreneurs: diversity in diversification in Zambian farming’ Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.
Carrie, R, Dixon, AB and Mvula, A (2016) A Functional Landscape Approach for sustainable wetland and upland management in Kankhulukulu catchment, Malawi.
Dixon, A and Carrie, R (2015) Creating local institutional arrangements for sustainable wetland socio-ecological systems: lessons from the ‘Striking a Balance’ project in Malawi. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 23, 1.
Wood, AP, Dixon, AB and McCartney, M (2013) Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa . Earthscan, London
Binns, JA, Dixon, AB and Nel, E (2011) Africa: Diversity and Development. Routledge, London.
Dixon, AB, Hailu, A, Semu T and Taffa, L (2009) Local responses to marginalisation: human-wildlife conflicts in Ethiopia’s wetlands. Geography 94, 1, p38-47
Wood, AP, Sellamuttu, SS and De Cruz, R (2009) ‘Managing water in wetlands for people’.In Mundy, P (ed.) Planting trees to eat fish. Field experiences in wetlands and poverty reduction . Wageningen, Wetlands International, p 101-108
Ndiyoi, M, Sampa, JB, Thawe, P and Wood, AP (2009) ‘Striking a balance: maintaining seasonal dambo wetlands in Malawi and Zambia.’ In Mundy, P (ed.) Planting trees to eat fish. Field experiences in wetlands and poverty reduction . Wageningen, Wetlands International, p. 27-39
Howard, GW, Bakema, R and Wood AP (2009) ‘The multiple use of wetlands in Africa’. In Maltby, E (ed.) The wetlands handbook, Blackwell, Oxford, p 850-875
Maconachie, R, Dixon, AB and Wood, AP (2009) Decentralization and local institutional arrangements for wetland management in Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. Applied Geography , 29, 2, p269-279.
Buch, A and Dixon, AB (2009) South Africa’s working for Water programme: A win-win situation for environment and development? Sustainable Development , 17, 3, p129-141.
Dixon, AB (2008) The resilience of local wetland management institutions in Ethiopia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29, 3, p341 – 357
Wood, AP and van Halsema, GE (Eds) (2008) Scoping agriculture-wetland interactions: Towards a sustainable multiple response strategy . FAO, Rome
Dixon, AB (2003) Indigenous management of wetlands: experiences in Ethiopia . Ashgate, Aldershot.
Dixon, AB and Wood, AP (2003) Wetland cultivation and hydrological management in East Africa: Matching community and hydrological needs through sustainable wetland use. Natural Resources Forum , 27, 2, p 117 – 129
Dixon, AB (2002) The hydrological impacts and sustainability of wetland drainage cultivation in Illubabor, Ethiopia. Land Degradation and Development , 13, 1, p 17 – 31
Wood, AP ( 2001) ‘Gender and wetland development’. In Dellalegn, Y (ed.) The wetlands of Ethiopia. IUCN, Gland, p 58-66
Wood, AP and Dixon, AB (2000) EWRP Objective Summary Reports. Unpublished Report, The University of Huddersfield.
‘Striking a Balance’ Policy Briefing Papers (2009)
SAB Policy Briefing 1 – The Striking a Balance Approach
SAB Policy Briefing 2 – Local Institutions and Wetland Management
SAB Policy Briefing 3 – Ecological Assessment of Wetland Health
SAB Policy Briefing 4 – Wetland Policies
SAB Policy Briefing 5 – Adaptive Responses to Climate Change
Wetland Action Video
Striking A Balance – Dambo Management and Poverty Reduction in Zambia & Malawi (2011)
VIDEO
Wetlands supporting livelihoods in Malawi and Zambia (2008)
VIDEO