After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005, floodwaters covering New Orleans were pumped into Lake Pontchartrain as part of rehabilitation process to make the city habitable again. The long term consequences of this environmentally critical decision were left to observation. This paper examines the likely response of Lake Pontchartrain to the load of contaminants that were po...

Disputes over land, water, forests, rangelands, and other resources, both privately and commonly-held, are omnipresent across Africa and increasing in number due to the socioeconomic and environmental changes happening on microand macrolevels. Communities in Africa have a variety of mechanisms rooted in customary and statutory institutions to deal with disputes. This paper uses community-level ...