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Selected publications and reports by CWEL staff:  
   
Wood, A.P. and Dixon, A.B. (2002) Sustainable wetland management in Illubabor Zone: EWRP Research report summaries, The University of Huddersfield.
         Dambos and Food Security: A Leverhulme Fellowship Report, CWEL,The University of Huddersfield.  
Read Summary     Dixon, A. B. (2003) Indigenous management of wetlands: experiences in Ethiopia. Ashgate, Aldershot.   Read a summary     Wood, A. P. (ed.) (1997) Strategies for sustainability, Africa. London: Earthscan.  
    Wood, A.P. (1996) Wetland drainage and management in south-west Ethiopia: some environmental experiences of an NGO. In A. Reenberg, H.S. Marcussen & I. Nielsen (eds.) The Sahel - Proceedings from the 1996 Danish Sahel Workshop. Copenhagen: Serein, University of Copenhagen, pp. 119-136       Wood, A P (1999) Wetlands in highlands: the search for sustainable use of valley bottom swamps in the highlands of south-west Ethiopia. In African mountain development in a changing world, Proceedings of the 4th African Mountains Workshop, Madagascar, May 1997. The African Mountain Association and Geographica Bernensia: Berne.  
    Wood, A.P. (1994) National sustainable development strategies in Africa. Lessons from recent experience. In H.S. Marcussen (ed.) Improved natural resource management. The role of the state versus that of the local community. Roskilde: International Development Studies Centre, Roskilde University. (Occasional Paper No. 12), pp. 196-209.



   View Amhara Workshop     Dixon, A B, Afework Hailu and Wood, A P (eds.) (2001) Proceedings of the Wetland Awareness Creation and Activity Identification Workshop in Amhara Regional State, January 23rd 2001, Bahar Dar, Ethiopia. Wetland Action, The University of Huddersfield, UK  
Wood, A P, Afework Hailu, Abbot, P G & Dixon, A B (2002) Sustainable management of wetlands in Ethiopia: Local knowledge versus government policy. In Gawler, M (ed) Strategies for wise use of wetlands: Best practices in participatory management, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, p 81-88.

Journal articles

  • Dixon, A B (2003) The indigenous evaluation of wetlands research in Ethiopia. Development in Practice, 13, 4, p 394 - 398.
  • Dixon, A B and Wood, A P (2003) Wetland cultivation and hydrological management in East Africa: Matching community and hydrological needs through sustainable wetland use. Natural Resources Forum, 27, 2, p 117 – 129.
  • Dixon, A B (2002) The hydrological impacts and sustainability of wetland drainage cultivation in Illubabor, Ethiopia, Land Degradation and Development, 13, 1, p 17 – 31.
  • Dixon, A B (2001) Indigenous hydrological knowledge in south-western Ethiopia, Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, 9, 3, p 3-5.



 

Ethiopian Wetlands Research Programme - Reports and Briefing Notes
 
  View report    Afework Hailu, Dixon, A.B., and Wood, A.P., 2000. Nature, extent and trends in wetland drainage and use in Illubabor Zone, South-west Ethiopia, Report for Objective 1. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.   Click to view   Abbot, P.G., Afework Hailu and Wood, A.P., 2000. Community organisation for natural resource management and the potential for community based wetlands management. Report 2 for Objective 3. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.  
View Report   Conway, D and Dixon, A.B., 2000. The hydrology of wetlands in Illubabor Zone. Report for Objective 2. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.   View Report   Afework Hailu, Abbot, P.G., Wood, A.P., 2000. Appropriate techniques for sustainable wetland management, Report for Objective 4. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.  
View Report   Belay Tegegne and Hunt, C.O., 2000. The characteristics and management of wetland soils of Metu Wereda, Illubabor Zone of Oromia region. Report 2 for Objective 2. Addis Ababa University and Huddersfield University, Addis Ababa and Huddersfield.   View Report   Afework Hailu and Wood, A.P., 2000. Training and dissemination of technologies to develop management and monitoring capacity for sustainable wetland management. Report for Objective 5. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.  
     
View Report   Zerihun Woldu, 2000. Plant biodiversity in the wetlands of Illubabor Zone. Report 3 for Objective 2. Addis Ababa University and Huddersfield University, Addis Ababa and Huddersfield.   View Report   Wood, A.P., 2000 Policy issues on sustainable wetland management. Report for Objective 6. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.  
     
View Report   Solomon Mulugeta, Abbot, P.G., Tegegne Sishaw and Afework Hailu, 2000. Socio-economic determinants of wetland use in the Metu and Yayu-Hurumu weredas of Illubabor Zone. Report 1 for Objective 3. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.     Afework Hailu, Wood, A.P, Abbot, P.G & Dixon, A.B., 2000. Understanding wetlands & their management: extension information for development workers. EWRP and The University of Huddersfield, Metu and Huddersfield.  
     
    The role and importance of wetlands in Ethiopia     Dynamics of wetland management - lessons for Ethiopia  
     
    Sustainable wetland management - lessons from Illubabor Zone       Wetlands and food security in South-west Ethiopia  
     
    Wetlands, policies and environmental assessment       Indigenous wetland knowledge, the basis for sustainable use  
     
    Institutional development to support sustainable wetland management