Dr Chasca Twyman

Refereed Journals in print

  • Osbahr, H., Twyman, C., Adger, W.N. and Thomas D.S.G. (2008). Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique. Geoforum, 39(6), 1951-1964.
    doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.07.010
  • Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Gibbs, L. (2008). Learning from the South: common challenges and solutions for small-scale farming in the global north and south. Geographical Journal, 174(3), 235-250.
    doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00298.x
  • Thomas D.S.G., Twyman, C., Osbahr, H. and Hewitson, B. (2007). Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa. Climatic Change, 83(3), 301-322.
    doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9205-4
  • Stringer, L.C., Thomas D.S.G. and Twyman, C. (2007). From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland. Geographical Journal, 173(2), 129-142.
    doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00226.x
  • Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007). Learning to reduce degradation on Swaziland's arable land: enhancing understandings of Striga asiatica. Land Degradation and Development, 18(2), 163-177.
    doi:10.1002/ldr.768
  • Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007). Combating land degradation through participatory means: the case of Swaziland. Ambio, 36, 387-393.
    doi:10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[387:CLDTPM]2.0.CO;2
  • Thomas, D.S.G. and Twyman, C. (2005). Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependant societies. Global Environmental Change A, 15(2), 115-124.
    doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.10.001
  • Twyman, C. and Slater, R. (2005). Hidden Livelihoods?: Natural resource-dependent livelihoods and urban development policy. Progress in Development Studies, 5(1), 1-15.
    doi:10.1191/1464993405ps097oa
  • Twyman, C., Sporton, D. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2004). 'Where is the life in farming?': The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa. Geoforum, 35(1), 69-85.
    doi:10.1016/S0016-7185(03)00030-7
  • Thomas, D.S.G. and Twyman, C. (2004). Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari. Land Degradation and Development, 15(3), 215-231.
    doi:10.1002/ldr.610
  • Dougill, A., Twyman, C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Sporton, D. (2002). Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa: use of nutrient balance studies for participatory degradation monitoring. Geographical Journal, 168(3), 195-210.
    doi:10.1111/1475-4959.00048
  • Twyman, C., Dougill, A., Sporton, D. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2001). Community Fencing in Open Rangelands: A Case Study of Community Self-empowerment in Eastern Namibia. Review of African Political Economy, 28(87), 9-26.
  • Twyman, C. (2001). Natural Resource Use and Livelihoods in Botswana's Wildlife Management Areas. Applied Geography, 21(1), 45-68.
    doi:10.1016/S0143-6228(00)00016-3
  • Twyman, C. (2000). Participatory Conservation? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana. Geographical Journal, 166(4), 323-335.
    doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2000.tb00034.x
  • Twyman, C. (2000). Livelihood Opportunity and Diversity in Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas, Botswana: Rethinking Community Resource Management. Journal of Southern African Studies, 26(4), 783-806.
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  • Twyman, C., Morrison, J. and Sporton, D. (1999). The final fifth: autobiography, reflexivity and interpretation in cross-cultural research. Area, 31(4), 313-325.
    doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00098.x
  • Twyman, C. (1998). Rethinking community resource management: managing resources or managing people in western Botswana? Third World Quarterly, 19(4), 745-770.
    doi:10.1080/01436599814226

Chapters in books

  • Thomas, D.S.G. and Twyman, C. (2005). Equity in resource management amongst natural resource dependent societies: implications for equity in adaptation to climate change. In: Adger, N., Paavola, J. and Mace, M. (eds.) Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change. MIT Press.
  • Twyman, C. (2001). Entitled to a Living: Opportunity and Diversity in the Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas. In: Sporton, D. and Thomas, D.S.G. (eds.) Sustainable Livelihoods in Marginal African Environments. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Sporton, D. and Twyman, C. (2001). Politics, Policy and Livelihoods in the Kalahari. In: Sporton, D. and Thomas, D.S.G. (eds.) (2002). Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: A Contribution to Global Debates. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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