Synopses & Reviews
Community conservation in Africa is a fast growing area of policy, practice, and theory. To date, little has been published on community conservation issues, and as such, this edited collection represents one of the first books to present hard data and objecive evaluations of community conservation initiatives. The collection offers analyses of key concepts in community conservation programs, concepts such as the meanings of conservation, of community, of participation, of land tenure and control. Contributors to the volume display a broad range of academic disciplines and interests: from conservation biology to economic analysis, to academics to scholar-activists to those actively involoved in the administration of major conservation organization. The book assesses changes in conservation/natural resource management processes and institutions, and suggests directions for future research and policies. The book will be of interest to policy makers working on community conservation issue Contributors to the volume display a broad range of academic disciplines and interests: from conservation biology to economic analysis, to academics to scholar-activists to those actively involoved in the administration of major conservation organization. The book assesses changes in conservation/natural resource management processes and institutions, and suggests directions for future research and policies. The book will be of interest to policy makers working on community conservation issues as well as to students of ecology and development.
Synopsis
Community conservation in Africa is a fast growing area of policy, practice, and theory. To date, little has been published on community conservation issues, and as such, this edited collection represents one of the first books to present hard data and objecive evaluations of community conservation initiatives. The collection offers analyses of key concepts in community conservation programs, concepts such as the meanings of conservation, of community, of participation, of land tenure and control.
Contributors to the volume display a broad range of academic disciplines and interests: from conservation biology to economic analysis, to academics to scholar-activists to those actively involoved in the administration of major conservation organization. The book assesses changes in conservation/natural resource management processes and institutions, and suggests directions for future research and policies. The book will be of interest to policy makers working on community conservation issues as well as to students of ecology and development.
Synopsis
Essays on the policy, practice, and theory of community conservation in Africa.
About the Author
David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.Marshall Murphree is chairman of the Sustainable Usse Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Table of Contents
Preface
Setting the Scene
Community Conservation in Africa: An Introduction, David Hulme & Marshall Murphree
Conservation & Community: Hanging Narratives Policies & Practices in African Conservation, William Adams & David Hulme
Community Conservation: From Concept to Practice, Edmund Barrow & Marshall Murphree
Conservation Policies and Institutions
The Evolution of Policy on Community Conservation in Nambia and Zimbabwe, Brian Jones & Marshall Murphree
The Evolution of Community Conservation Policy & Practice in East Africa, Edmund Barrow, Helen Gichohi and Mark Infield
Necessarily Vague: The Political Economy of Community Conservation in Mozambique, Simon Anstey
Accomodating new Narratives in a Conservation Bureaucracy: TANAPA & Community Conservation, Patrick Bergin
Parks & People Revisited: Community Conservation as Protected Area Outreach
Community Conservation, Reciprocity & Park-People Relationships: A Study of Lake Mhuro National Park, Uganda , David Hulme & Mark Infield
Park Outreach & Gorilla Conservation: A Study of Mgabinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda, William Adams & Mark Infield
Conservation, Livelihoods & the Intrinsic Value of Wildlife: Community Conservation at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Kadzo Kangwana & Rafael Old Mako
Devolving Management: Community Conservation as Community-Based Natural Resource Management
The Evolution of a Community-based Approach to Wildfire Management at Kunene, Nambia, Brian Jones
Community, Council and Client: A Case Study in Ecotourism Development from Mahenye, Zimbabwe, Marshall Murphree
Old Ways & New Challenges: Traditional Resource Management Systems in the Chimanimani Mountains, Mozambique , Simon Anstey & Camila De Sousa
Economics, Incentives & Institutional Change
The Nature of Benefits & the Benefits of Nature: Why Wildlife Conservation has Not Economically Benefited Communities in Africa, Lucy Emerton
CAMPFIRE & the Incentives for Institutional Change, Ivan Bond
Committees, Rights, Costs & Benefits: Natural Resource Stewardship and Community Benefits in Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme, James Murombedzi
Measuring & Monitoring Conservation
Can Community Conservation Strategies Meet the Conservation Agenda?, Kadzo Kangwana
Participatory Natural Resource Monitoring & Management: Implications for Conservation, Russell Taylor
Conclusions
Community Conservation as Policy: Promise and Performance, David Hulme & Marshall Murphree
Bibliography