Christian Kull

on agriculture, biodiversity, and livelihoods
on plant movements
on fire
on CBNRM
on land use change
on conservation
on tapia woodlands
and on other topics

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Publications on the nexus of agriculture, biodiversity, and livelihoods

• Kull, CA, SM Carriere, S Moreau, H Rakoto Ramiarantsoa, C Blanc-Pamard & J Tassin (2013)  Melting pots of biodiversity: tropical smallholder farm landscapes as guarantors of sustainability. Environment 55(2): 6-16. text online
• Carriere, SM, E Rodary, P Méral, G Serpantié, V Boisvert, CA Kull, G Lestrelin, L Lhoutellier, B Moizo, G Smektala & J-C Vandevelde (2012) Rio+20, biodiversity marginalized. Conservation Letters 6(1) 6-11.  author version pdf   official link

Publications on the transfer, diffusion, and dispersal of plants, on the politics of ‘invasive aliens’ and ‘weeds’, with a particular focus on Acacia

• Kull, C. A., and J. Tassin. 2012. Australian acacias: useful and (sometimes) weedy. Biological Invasions 14(11):2229-2233. official link  author version pdf
• Tassin, J & CA Kull (2012) Pour une autre représentation métaphorique des invasions biologiques (Devising other metaphors for biological invasions). Natures Sciences Sociétés 20 (4):404-414. official link pdf
• Tassin Jacques, Haripriya Rangan, Christian A. Kull (2012) Hybrid improved tree fallows: harnessing invasive woody legumes for agroforestry.  Agroforestry Systems 84 (3): 417-428 . official link  author version pdf
• Kull, Christian A., Jacques Tassin, Sophie Moreau, Hervé Rakoto Ramiarantsoa, Chantal Blanc-Pamard & Stéphanie M. Carrière (2012) The introduced flora of Madagascar. Biological Invasions.  14(4):875-888.  official link    authors’ version pdf     Table S1 full inventory    Table S2 Analysis by family
• Kull, C. A., C. M. Shackleton, P. J. Cunningham, C. Ducatillion, J.-M. Dufour-Dror, K. J. Esler, J. B. Friday, A. C. Gouveia, A. R. Griffin, E. Marchante, S. J. Midgley, A. Pauchard, H. Rangan, D. M. Richardson, T. Rinaudo, J. Tassin, L. S. Urgenson, G. P. von Maltitz, R. D. Zenni, and M. J. Zylstra. (2011) Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world. Diversity and Distributions 17 (5):822-836. link
• Carruthers, J., L. Robin, J. P. Hattingh, C. A. Kull, H. Rangan, and B. W. van Wilgen (2011) A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of Acacia. Diversity and Distributions 17 (5):810-821. link
• Wilson, J. R. U., C. Gairifo, M. R. Gibson, M. Arianoutsou, B. B. Bakar, S. Baret, L. Celesti-Grapow, J. M. DiTomaso, J.-M. Dufour-Dror, C. Kueffer, C. A. Kull, J. H. Hoffmann, F. A. C. Impson, L. L. Loope, E. Marchante, H. Marchante, J. L. Moore, D. J. Murphy, J. Tassin, A. Witt, R. D. Zenni, and D. M. Richardson (2011). Risk assessment, eradication, and biological control: global efforts to limit Australian acacia invasions. Diversity and Distributions 17 (5):1030-1046. link
• Rangan, Haripriya, Christian A. Kull, and Lisa Alexander (2010).  Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change:  controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palni Hills, southern India.  Regional Environmental Change 10 (2): 103-117. official link   authors’ version pdf
• Rangan, Haripriya and Christian A. Kull (2010). The Indian Ocean and the making of Outback Australia: an ecocultural odyssey. pp45-72 in Indian Ocean Studies:Cultural, Social and Political Perspectives (eds.) Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal.  London: Routledge. pdf
• Aitken, Michele, Haripriya Rangan, and Christian A. Kull (2009).  Living with alien invasives: the political ecology of wattle in the eastern Highveld, Mpumalanga, South Africa.  Etudes Océan Indien 42-43:  115-141. pdf
• Tassin, Jacques, Rado Rakotomanana, Christian Kull (2009).  Bioinvasions en milieu rural: la valorization paysanne de Acacia dealbataà Madagascar.  (Proposal for a representational framework for studies of bioinvasions in rural areas: the example of Acacia dealbata in Madagascar) Bois et Forêts des Tropiques. 300(2):3-14 link to pdf
• Tassin, Jacques, Médoc, J.M., Kull, C.A., Rivière, J.N., and Balent, G. (2009).  Can invasion patches of Acacia mearnsii serve as colonizing sites for native plant species on Réunion (Mascarene archipelago)? African Journal of Ecology 47: 422-32link
• Tassin, Jacques, Ronald Bellefontaine, Edmond Roger, Christian Kull, (2009).  Evaluation preliminaire des risques d’invasion par les essences forestieres introduites à Madagascar (A preliminary analysis of the invasiveness of introduced forestry species in Madagascar).  Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 299(1): 27-36. link to pdf
• Rangan, Haripriya & Christian A. Kull, (2008) What makes ecology ‘political’?: rethinking ‘scale’ in political ecology. Progress in Human Geography 33 (1): 28-45. link
• Breton, Catherine, Jenny Guerin, Catherine Ducatillion, Frédéric Médail, Christian A. Kull, André Bervillé (2008) Taming the wild and ‘wilding’ the tame: tree breeding and dispersal in Australia and the Mediterranean. Plant Science 175: 197-205. link
• Kull, Christian A. & Haripriya Rangan, (2008). Acacia exchanges: wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements. Geoforum 39 (3): 1258-72. official link   author version pdf
• Kull, Christian A., Jacques Tassin, Gerard Rambeloarisoa, Jean-Michel Sarrailh, (2007). Invasive Australian acacias on western Indian Ocean islands: a historical and ecological review. African Journal of Ecology 46(4): 684-9. link.
• Kull, Christian A., Jacques Tassin, Haripriya Rangan (2007). Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forests? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar. Mountain Research and Development 27 (3): 224-31. link pdf

Publications on fire

• Altangerel, Khulan & Christian A. Kull (2012 online early) The prescribed burning debate in Australia: conflicts and compatibilities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.  DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2011.652831. official link  authors version pdf
• Bowman, D. M. J. S., J. K. Balch, P. Artaxo, W. J. Bond, M. A. Cochrane, C. M. D’Antonio, R. DeFries, F. H. Johnston, J. E. Keeley, M. A. Krawchuk, C. A. Kull, M. Mack, M. A. Moritz, S. J. Pyne, C. I. Roos, A. C. Scott, N. S. Sodhi, and T. W. Swetnam. 2011. The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth. Journal of Biogeography 38:2223-2236. link
• Kull, Christian A. & Paul Laris (2009). Fire ecology and fire politics in Mali and Madagascar, pp.71-226 in Mark A. Cochrane, ed. Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics. Springer-Praxis, Heidelberg, Germany. pdf
• Bowman, D. M. J. S., J. K. Balch, P. Artaxo, W. J. Bond, J. M. Carlson, M. A. Cochrane, C. M. D’Antonio, R. S. DeFries, J. C. Doyle, S. P. Harrison, F. H. Johnston, J. E. Keeley, M. A. Krawchuk, C. A. Kull, J. B. Marston, M. A. Moritz, I. C. Prentice, C. I. Roos, A. C. Scott, T. W. Swetnam, G. R. van der Werf, and S. J. Pyne. 2009. Fire in the Earth System. Science 324 (5926):481-484. link
• Kull, Christian A. (2008). The useful and confounding ambiguity of fire: conflicts over fire use in Madagascar. Presentation at Pyrogeography and Climate Change miniconference (KITP, Univ. California-Santa Barbara). lecture video/podcast
• Kull, Christian A. (2008). Landscapes of fire: origins, politics, and questions. 424-49 in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, ed. Bruno David and Julian Thomas. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
• Kull, Christian A. (2007). Fire. 667-73 in Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, vol 2, ed. Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Kull, Christian A. (2004). Isle of Fire: the Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, 324pp. web amazon googlebooks
• Kull, Christian A. (2003). Fire and the management of highland vegetation. 153-57 in Natural History of Madagascar, eds. S. Goodman and J. Benstead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Kull, Christian A. (2002). Madagascar aflame: landscape burning as peasant protest, resistance, or a resource management tool? Political Geography 21 (7): 927-53. link
• Kull, Christian A. (2002). Madagascar’s burning issue: the persistent conflict over fire.Environment 44 (3): 8-19.
• Kull, Christian A. (1999). Observations on repressive environmental policies and landscape burning strategies in Madagascar. African Studies Quarterly 3 (2), text online.

Publications on decentralization, devolution, and community-based management

• Dressler, W. H., B. Buuscher, M. Schoon, D. Brockington, T. Hayes, C. A. Kull, J. McCarthy, & K. Strestha. 2010.  From hope to crisis and back again?  A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative.  Environmental Conservation.  37(1): 5-15. link pdf
• Scanlon, Lauren & Christian A. Kull, (2009).  Untangling the links between wildlife benefits and community-based conservation at Torra Conservancy, Namibia.  Development Southern Africa 26 (1): 75-93. link pdf
• Dressler, Wolfram H., Christian A. Kull, and Thomas C. Meredith (2006). The politics of decentralizing national parks management in the Philippines. Political Geography 25 (7): 789-816.link
• Kull, Christian A. (2002). Empowering pyromaniacs in Madagascar: ideology and legitimacy in community-based resource management. Development and Change 33 (1): 57-78. link

Publications on land use change

• Kull, Christian A. (2012) Air photo evidence of historical land cover change in the highlands: wetlands and grasslands give way to crops and woodlots. Madagascar Conservation and Development 7 (3):144-152. online with link to pdf
• Kull, Christian A. (forthcoming 2013) Politicizing land use change in highland Madagascar: struggles with air photo analyses and conservation agendas. In Land Change Science, Political Ecology and Sustainability, edited by Brannstrom, C. & J. Vadjunec. London: Routledge. link
• Kull, Christian A. (2008). Saving the land with spades: human landscape transformations in the central highlands. 113-136 in Greening the Great Red Island: Madagascar in Nature and Culture, ed. Jeffrey C. Kaufmann. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. book blurb  pdf
• Kull, Christian A., Camellia K. Ibrahim, and Thomas C. Meredith (2007). Tropical forest transitions and globalization: neoliberalism, migration, tourism, and international conservation agendas.Society and Natural Resources. 20 (8): 723-37. official link   author version pdf   conference paper
• Kull, Christian A. (2005). Historical landscape repeat photography as a tool for land use change research. Norwegian Journal of Geography 59 (4): 253-68. link
• Kull, Christian A. (2000). Deforestation, erosion, and fire: degradation myths in the environmental history of Madagascar. Environment and History 6 (4): 421-50. PDF   link  Article reprinted pp. 157-183 in Sarah Johnson, ed. (2012) Indigenous Knowledge.  Themes in Environmental History 3.  Cambridge: White Horse Press. official link
• Kull, Christian A. (1998) Leimavo revisited: Agrarian land-use change in the highlands of Madagascar. Professional Geographer 50 (2): 163-176. link

Publications on conservation in Madagascar

• Marcus, Richard R. and Christian A. Kull (1999). Setting the stage: the politics of Madagascar’s environmental efforts. African Studies Quarterly 3 (2) text online
• Kull, Christian A. (1996). The evolution of conservation efforts in Madagascar. International Environmental Affairs 8 (1): 50-86.

Publications on Madagascar’s tapia (Uapaca bojeri) woodlands

• Kull, Christian A., Joelisoa Ratsirarson, and Gidehona Randriamboavonjy (2005). Les forêts de tapia des Hautes Terres malgaches. Terre Malgache 24: 22-58.  pdf
• Kull, Christian A. (2003). Uapaca woodlands. 393-98 in Natural History of Madagascar, eds. S. Goodman and J. Benstead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Kull, Christian A. (2002). The ‘degraded’ tapia woodlands of highland Madagascar: rural economy, fire ecology, and forest conservation. Journal of Cultural Geography 19 (2): 95-128.

Publications on other topics

• Kull, Christian A. and Haripriya Rangan (2012)  Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate. 197-219 in Simon G. Haberle and Bruno David (eds), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes. Terra Australis 34.  Canberra: ANU E-Press. pdf
• Kull, Christian A. (2008)  Who should vote where?  Geography and fairness in migrant voting rights.  Geographical Research 46 (4): 459-65. official link author version pdf
• Kull, Christian A. and Francis J. Magilligan (1994). Controls over landslide distribution in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Physical Geography 15 (4): 325-341.
• Kull, Christian A. 1998. Mandeha tongotra: on foot in Madagascar. Appalachia 52 (206): 96-108.