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 2013

Zhang, Q., H. Körnich and K. Holmgren, 2013: How well do reanalyses represent the southern African precipitation? Climate Dynamics, 40, doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1423-z, 951-962.

2012

Ekblom A, Gillson, L., Risberg, J., Holmgren, K., Chidoub, S, 2012: Rainfall variability and vegetation dynamics of the lower Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa, 500 AD to present. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 69-78

 Hamisi, H.I., Tumbo, M., Kalumanga, E., Yanda, P., 2012. Crisis in the wetlands: Combined stresses in a changing climate – Experience from Tanzania. Climate and Development 4, 5–15.
 
Öberg, H., Andersen, T.J., Westerberg, L.O., Risberg J. and Holmgren, K. 2012: A diatom record of recent environmental change in Lake Duluti, northern Tanzania.Journal of Paleolimnology 48: 401-416, DOI 10.1007/s10933-012-9615-4.
 
Holmgren, K., Risberg, J., Freudendahl, J., Achimo, M., Ekblom, A., Mugabe, J.,Norström, E. and Sitoe, S., 2012:Water level variations at Lake Nhauhache, Mozambique, during the last 2300 years. Journal of Paleolimnology 48: 311-322, DOI 10.1007/s10933-012-9596-3.
 
NorströmE, Risberg, J, Gröndahl, H, Holmgren, K, Snowball, I. Mugabe, J. and Sitoe, S. 2012: Coastal paleo-environment and sea-level change at Macassa Bay, southern Mozambique, since c 6600 cal yrs BP. Quaternary International 260, 153-163.
 
Widgren, Mats (2012). Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: Understanding the dynamics of small-scale labour-intensive farming landscapes. Ch 5 in Plieninger, T. & Bieling, C. (eds.) (2012): Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
 

 

Widgren, Mats  (2012). Landscape research in a world of domesticated landscapes: the role of values, theory, and concepts. Quaternary International   (Preprint version here)

 Östberg, Wilhelm. "Safflower: liberalisation or participation in a Tanzanian village." Pp. 250-261 in Ecology and Power. Struggles over land and material resources in the past, present, and future, ed. by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, and Kenneth Hermele. London & New York:Routledge. 2012

 
Norström E, Risberg, J, Gröndahl, H, Holmgren, K, Snowball, I. Mugabe, J, Sitoe, S. 2012: Coastal paleo-environment and sea-level change at Macassa Bay, southern Mozambique, since c 6600 cal yrs BP. Quaternary International 260, 153-163. 
 
2011
 
Widgren, M. (2011) A World of Domesticated Landscapes. – Peil, T., Lang, V. & Kull, K. (eds) The Space of Culture – The Place of Nature: Approachesto Culture Theory I. Tartu Universtity Publishers, Tartu. 181-185
 
2010
 
Östberg, Wilhelm & Monique Slegers. "Losing faith in the land: changing environmental perceptions in Burunge country, Tanzania." Journal of Eastern African Studies 4(2):247-265, 2010.

 
Widgren, M. (2010). Reading the prehistoric landscape. Ymer 130, 69-86
 
Westerberg, L.O., Holmgren, K., Börjeson, L., Håkansson, T., Laulumaa, V.,  Ryner, M., Öberg, H. (2010) “The development of the ancient irrigation system at Engaruka, Northern Tanzania. Physical and societal factors”. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 176 (4), pp. 304–318.
 
Börjeson, L. (2010). ”Agricultural Intensification”. Entry (2-pages) in the Encyclopedia of Geography, ed. by Barney Warf. SAGE Publications.
2009
 
Börjeson, L. (2009): Using a historical map as a baseline in land-cover change study of northeast Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 47(Suppl1) 185-191.
 
2009
 
Holzkämper, S., Holmgren K., Lee-Thorp, J., Talma, S., Mangini, A., 2009: Late Pleistocene Stalagmite Growth in Wolkberg Cave, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282, 212-221. 
 
2008
 
Kangalawe, Richard, Carl Christiansson & Wilhelm Östberg. “Changing land-use patterns and farming strategies in the degraded environment of the Irangi Hills, central Tanzania.”  Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment Vol 125/1-4 pp 33-47. 2008.
 
Dahlberg, A. & Östberg, W. 2008. Sub-Saharan Africa: An environmental history. Ethnos, 73, 272-274.
 
Holmgren, K., Börjeson, L., Dahlberg. A., Muzuka, A., Norström E., Öberg. H. Risberg, J., Ryner, M., Sitoe, S.,  Westerberg, L.O. Widgren, M., Yanda, P. (2008) The Vulnerable Continent (PLATINA): Historical perspectives on Africa´s Climate, Environment and Societies. In Meeting global challenges in research cooperation. Proceedings of a conference and workshop in Uppsala, May 27-29, 2008. Uppsala:  Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University. pp. 585-596.
 
Norström, E., Scott, L., Partridge, T.P., Risberg, J., Holmgren, K, 2008: Reconstruction of environmental and climate changes at Braamhoek wetland, eastern escarpment, South Africa, during the last 16 000 years with emphasis on the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271, 240-258.
 
Ryner, M., Holmgren, K., Taylor, D. 2008: A record of vegetation dynamics and lake level changes from lake Emakat, northern Tanzania, during the last c. 1200 years. J. Paleolimnol. 40: 583-601.
 
Scott, L.A., Holmgren, K. and Partridge, T.C. 2008: Reconciliation of vegetation and climatic interpretations of pollen profiles and other regional records from the last 60 thousand years in the Savanna Biome of Southern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 257, 198-206.
 
 Norström, E., Holmgren, K and Mörth, C.M. 2008: A 600 year long δ18O-record from cellulose of Breonadia salicina trees, South Africa. Dendrochronologia 26, 21-33.
 
Widgren, M., N. Thomas Håkansson & Lowe Börjeson (guest editors): Special issue of International Journal of African Historical Studies,   41/3, 2008: The Political Ecology of Trade, Food Production and, Landscape Transformations in Northeast Tanzania: 1850-2000,
 
Introduction: Håkansson, T., Widgren, M. & Börjeson. L. (2008) : Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania 1850-2000. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 41, (pp. 369-382)
 
Börjeson, L., Dorothy L. Hodgson & Pius Z. Yanda Northeast Tanzania’s disappearing rangelands: historical perspectives on recent land-use/cover change at a regional scale. International Journal of African Historical Studies (pp.523-556)
 
Gessesse Dessie & Kinlund, P. (2008). Khat expansion and forest decline in Wondo Genet Ethiopia. Geografiska Annaler, series B.
 
Håkansson, N.T., Widgren, M,. and Börjeson, L. 2008. Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania, 1850–2000. International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 41, 3: 369–382.

 

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27th May 2013. 10:15 - 16:00 room X308

African and Global Landscape history: Stockholm- Uppsala synergies

Paul Lane has recently been appointed to a chair in Global Archaeology at Uppsala University. He has since long cooperated with Stockholm geographers in the network People and Land and Time in Africa and has successfully completed a large interdisciplinary project on Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes. We welcome him to Sweden and take this opportunity to discuss how Stockholm-Uppsala links in the field of African and Global landscape history can be strengthened.

28th May 10:15 X308

Martina Angela Caretta halftime seminar: Negotiating irrigated landscape. A local gender contract analysis of two small holder farming communities in the dry-land of East Africa
The opponent is Anna-Klara Lindeborg from the Dept. of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University

Two themed session at the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science meeting Deadline for abstracts submission 30th June 2013