William J. McConnell CSIS Associate Director Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 13 Natural Resources Building Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 (517) 432-7108 phone or (517) 432-1699 fax E-mail: mcconn64@msu.edu COS Link: www.cos.com

Qualifications

• B.Sc., University of California, Berkeley, Political Economy of Natural Resources, 1983
• M.A., Clark University, International Development and Social Change, 1993
• Ph.D., Clark University, Geography, 2000

Publications

• Geist, H., McConnell, W., Lambin, E., Moran, E., Alves, D., and Rudel, T.  In Press. Causes and trajectories of land-use/cover change, Land Use and Land Cover Change: Local Processes, Global Impacts, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer Verlag.

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• McConnell, W., and Sweeney, S. (2005) Challenges of Forest Governance in Madagascar, The Geographical Journal, 171(2)223-238.

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• Keys, E., and McConnell, W. (2005) Global Change and the Intensification of Agriculture in the Tropics, Global Environmental Change, 15320-337.

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• McConnell, W., and Keys, E. (2005) Deriving Policy Implications from Case Studies; Lessons from the Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Change in the Tropics. Chapter 13 in Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom (eds.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press pp. 325-353.

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• Unruh, J., Nagendra, H., Green, G., McConnell, W, and Vogt, N. (2005) Cross-Continental Comparisons: Africa and Asia, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 303-324.

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• McConnell, W., Sweeney, S., and Mulley, B. (2004) Physical and social access to land: spatio-temporal patterns of agricultural expansion in Madagascar, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 101(2-3)171-184.

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• McConnell, W (2003) Review of Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel: Understanding Natural Resources Management, Africa Today, 50(2)92-97.

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• McConnell, W. (2002) Misconstrued Land Use in Vohibazaha: Participatory Planning in the Periphery of Madagascar's Mantadia National Park, Land Use Policy, 19(3)217-230.

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• McConnell, W. (2002) Madagascar: Emerald Isle or Paradise Lost?, Environment, 44(8)10-22.

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• Parker, D., Berger, T., Manson, S., and McConnell, W. (2002) Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Report and review of an international workshop, Bloomington, IN, LUCC Focus 1 Office, 124pp.

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• Ford, R., and McConnell, W. (2001) Linking Geomatics and Participation to Manage Natural Resources in Madagascar, Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests Through Adaptive Collaborative Management, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 385-405.

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• McConnell, W. (2001) Meeting in the Middle: The Challenge of Meso-Level Integration, a Report, Land Use Policy, 19(2)99-101.

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• McConnell, W., and Moran, E. (2001) Meeting in the Middle: The Challenge of Meso-Level Integration, Bloomington, IN, LUCC Focus 1 Office, 68pp.

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• McConnell, W. (2001) Land Use and Cover Change, The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, Elsevier, 8251-8255.

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• McConnell, W. (1996) Local Ecological Knowledge and Agriculture in the Haute Vallee du Niger, Republic of Mali, W. Africa, Indigenous Knowledge and Change in African Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, Technology and Social Change Program, Iowa State University.