@article{ref1,
title="Crisis in policy, policy in crisis: understanding environmental discourse and resource‐use conflict in northern Nigeria",
journal="Geographical journal (Hoboken, NJ)",
year="2007",
author="Milligan, Simon and Binns, Tony",
volume="173",
number="2",
pages="143-156",
abstract="This article explores the emergence and persistence of crisis narratives in the policy environment of twentieth century Nigeria. It finds that environmental crisis narratives have a well-established and traceable historical lineage, initially, as continuity between colonial and post-colonial policy discourse, but more recently with donor agencies gaining increasing importance in influencing and shaping debate. Counter-narratives are identified, but these lack historical ‘legitimacy’, and often sit uncomfortably alongside donor-funded initiatives. In light of weak governance systems that impede the development and maintenance of robust data-sets, the article argues that flawed ‘conventional wisdom’ regarding environmental processes and people–environment linkages will combine to produce a policy environment that could actually constrain rather than enable the improvement of rural livelihoods.<p />",
language="",
issn="0016-7398",
doi="10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00231.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00231.x"
}