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Overview

Tor A. Benjaminsen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. The scientist's research spans a diverse range of topics chiefly within environmental science and social sciences, with a particular focus on rangeland management, livestock ecology, and transboundary water resource management.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, they have contributed significantly to subfields such as:

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Health Professions
  • Ecology

Their research engages with key topics including:

  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Health and Conflict Studies

Tor A. Benjaminsen has published in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Political Geography
  • Pastoralism Research Policy and Practice
  • Landscape Research
  • Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift
  • One Earth

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands" (2021), published in One Earth
  • "Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania" (2020), published in World Development
  • "Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency" (2021), published in African Security
  • "Climate-driven risks to peace over the 21st century" (2022), published in Climate Risk Management
  • "Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya's Conservancy Frontier" (2020), published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Hanne Svarstad
  • Kevin Grove
  • Stefano Costalli
  • Filippo Menga
  • Caroline Nagel

In addition to journal articles, Tor A. Benjaminsen has contributed to academic books, including a recent publication with Edward Elgar Publishing titled Climate Security and Climate Justice, released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • ADVANCING A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES

    W. Neil Adger;Tor A. Benjaminsen;Katrina Brown;Hanne Svarstad

  • Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Ian Bryceson

  • Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel?:

    Tor A Benjaminsen;Koffi Alinon;Halvard Buhaug;Jill Tove Buseth

  • THE KILOSA KILLINGS: POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF A FARMER–HERDER CONFLICT IN TANZANIA

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Faustin P. Maganga;Jumanne Moshi Abdallah

  • Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park

    Connor Cavanagh;Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • Formalisation of land rights: Some empirical evidence from Mali, Niger and South Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Stein Holden;Christian Lund;Espen Sjaastad

  • Does Supply-Induced Scarcity Drive Violent Conflicts in the African Sahel? The Case of the Tuareg Rebellion in Northern Mali

    Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • Farmer–herder conflicts, pastoral marginalisation and corruption: a case study from the inland Niger delta of Mali

    Tor A Benjaminsen;Boubacar Ba

  • Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands

    Lindsay Carman Stringer;Alisher Mirzabaev;Tor A. Benjaminsen;Rebecca Mb Harris

  • Power theories in political ecology

    Hanne Svarstad;Tor A Benjaminsen;Ragnhild Overå

  • Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Mara J. Goldman;Maya Y. Minwary;Faustin P. Maganga

  • Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug;Tor A Benjaminsen;Tor A Benjaminsen;Espen Olav Sjaastad;Ole Magnus Theisen;Ole Magnus Theisen

  • Global land governance: from territory to flow?

    Thomas Sikor;Graeme Auld;Anthony J. Bebbington;Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • Why do pastoralists in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Boubacar Ba

  • Formalisation and Informalisation of Land and Water Rights in Africa: An Introduction

    Tor A Benjaminsen;Christian Lund

  • Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania

    Sayuni B. Mariki;Hanne Svarstad;Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • Qu'est-ce que la « political ecology » ?

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Hanne Svarstad

  • Securing Land Rights in Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Christian Lund

  • Natural Resource Management, Paradigm Shifts, and the Decentralization Reform in Mali

    Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • The Death of an Elephant: Conservation Discourses Versus Practices in Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Hanne Svarstad

  • States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World

    Tor A. Benjaminsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso University of California, Berkeley
Marco A. Janssen
Marco A. Janssen Arizona State University
Thomas Sikor
Thomas Sikor University of East Anglia
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University

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