1. Note from the Editor Regarding this Special Issue

   • Daniel G. Bates

   PREFACE 05 January 2007 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use

   • Jane I. Guyer
   • Eric F. Lambin
   • John Unruh

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2007 Pages: 3 - 17

3. Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity: A half century of adaptation among Zambia’s Gwembe Tonga

   • Lisa Cliggett
   • Elizabeth Colson
   • Jon Unruh

   OriginalPaper 15 December 2006 Pages: 19 - 31

   

4. Sudden Shift or Migratory Drift? FulBe Herd Movements to the Sudano-Guinean Region of West Africa

   • Thomas J. Bassett
   • Matthew D. Turner

   OriginalPaper 20 December 2006 Pages: 33 - 49

   

5. Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana

   • Kojo S. Amanor
   • Opoku Pabi

   OriginalPaper 08 December 2006 Pages: 51 - 67

   

6. Making Sense in Time: Remote Sensing and the Challenges of Temporal Heterogeneity in Social Analysis of Environmental Change—cases from Malawi

   • Peter A. Walker
   • Pauline E. Peters

   OriginalPaper 12 December 2006 Pages: 69 - 80

   

7. Mutual Gains and Distributive Ideologies in South Africa: Theorizing Negotiations between Communities and Protected Areas

   • Derick A. Fay

   OriginalPaper 18 January 2007 Pages: 81 - 95

8. Rangeland as a Common Property Resource: Contrasting Insights from Communal Areas of Central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

   • James Bennett
   • Hazel Barrett

   OriginalPaper 13 December 2006 Pages: 97 - 112

   

9. Assessing the Effects of Invasive Alien Species on Rural Livelihoods: Case Examples and a Framework from South Africa

   • C. M. Shackleton
   • D. McGarry
   • C. Fabricius

   OriginalPaper 29 December 2006 Pages: 113 - 127

   

10. Lévy Flights in Dobe Ju/’hoansi Foraging Patterns

    • Clifford T. Brown
    • Larry S. Liebovitch
    • Rachel Glendon

    OriginalPaper 06 December 2006 Pages: 129 - 138

    

11. Herders’ Perceptions on Ruminant Livestock Breeds and Breeding Management in Southwestern Niger

    • Augustine A. Ayantunde
    • Moctar Kango
    • Ramadjita Tabo

    BriefCommunication 12 December 2006 Pages: 139 - 149