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Book SynopsisThis volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role in shaping the incentives for conservation. The editors and contributors of this volume examine the success or otherwise of these practices in a number of different contexts across the continent.Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Trade Review...this book is valuable for the honest and hard-hitting examination it gives community conservation. We learn that it will be difficult to provide meaningful returns from wildlife unless wildlife densities are high; that conservation is costly to communities. ...a must for all who are working on community conservation, scholars and practitioners alike. - Marja Spierenburg in * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *
...a useful resource for conservation practitioners, academics and students alike. The impressive list of contributors emphasises the combination of both practical field experience and academic rigour that makes this work so valuable...[will] prove to be a seminal publication in this field. Not only does the book come at an opportune time, when an increasingly critical analysis of community conservation in Africa is taking hold, but, through its own genesis (the processes of research, working papers and agenda setting), it has undoubtedly been instrumental in pushing this debate to the fore. - -- Will Banham * LUCAS Bulletin *
a timely contribution, which questions what has been achieved and whether intended objectives have been met. ...the cases hold some excellent accounts of conservation projects and convey well the perspectives of people working in this field. ...the detailed and informed tracing of histories of community-orientated conservation projects, drawn together in one volume, will undoubtedly make this a useful text for students conducting research in this field, and also for practitioners wanting to compare experiences in different country contexts. - -- Eleanor Fisher * JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Setting the scene: conservation and communities, William Adams and D. Hulme; community conservation from concept to practice - a practical framework, Edmund Barrow and Marshall Murphree. Part 2 Conservation policies and institutions: the evolution of policy in Namibia and Zimbabwe, Brian Jones and M. Murphree; community conservation in East Africa, Edmund Barrow et al; the political economy of community conservation policy in Mozambique, Simon Anstey; reforming a conservation bureaucracy in Tanzania, Patrick Bergin. Part 3 Parks and people revisited -community conservation as projected area outreach: Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda, D. Hulme and Mark Infield; Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda, William Adams and Mark Infield; Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (1992-97), Kadzo Kangwana and Rafael Ole Mako. Part 4 Developing management: the evolution of a community-based approach to wildlife management at Kunene, Namibia, Brian Jones; community conservation and private business (Mahenye, Zimbabwe), M. Murphree; community conservation designed by the community (Mozambique), Simon Anstey and Camila de Sousa. Part 5 Economics, incentives and institutional change: the nature of benefits and the benefits of nature, Lucy Emerton; economic incentives and institutional change in Zimbabwe, Ivan Bond; committees, rights, costs and benefits (Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme), James Murombedzi. Part 6 Measuring and monitoring conservation: can community conservation strategies meet the conservation agenda?, Kadzo Kangwana; participatory natural resource management - implications for conservation, Russell Taylor. Part 7 Conclusions: the future of community conservation; community conservation and beyond.
