Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 355 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511565335
Content:
This book provides a new inter-disciplinary look at the practice and policies of conservation in Africa. Bringing together social scientists, anthropologists and historians with biologists for the first time, the book sheds some light on the previously neglected but critically important social aspects of conservation thinking. To date conservation has been very much the domain of the biologist, but the current ecological crisis in Africa and the failure of orthodox conservation policies demand a radical new appraisal of conventional practices. This new approach to conservation, the book argues, cannot deal simply with the survival of species and habitats, for the future of African wildlife is intimately tied to the future of African rural communities. Conservation must form an integral part of future policies for human development. The book emphasises this urgent need for a complementary rather than a competitive approach. It covers a wide range of topics important to this new approach, from wildlife management to soil conservation and from the Cape in the nineteenth century to Ethiopia in the 1980s. It is essential reading for all those concerned about people and conservation in Africa
Content:
Early Themes in African conservation: the Cape in the noneteenth century / Richard Grove -- Chivalry, social Darwinism and ritualised killing: the hunting ethos in Central Africa up to 1914 / John M. Mackenzie -- Colonialism, capitalism and ecological crisis in Malawi: a reassessment / John McCracken -- Conservation with a human face: conflict and reconciliation in African land use planning / Richard Bell -- Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy / Kathrine Homewood -- Pastoralists and wildlife: image and reality in Kenya Maasailand / David Collett -- Integrating parks and pastoralists: some lessons from amboseli / W.K. Lindsay -- The Mursi and National Park development on the Lower Omo Valley / David Turton -- Local Institutions, tenure and resource management in East Africa / Peter D. Little -- Conflicting uses for forest resources in the Lower/Tana River basin of Kenya / Francine Hughes -- Environmental degradation, soil conservation and agricultural policiea in Sierra Leone, 1895-1984 / Andrew Millington -- Managing the forest: the conservation history of Lembus, Kenya, 1904-63 / David Anderson -- The Political reality of conservation in Nigeria / Olusegun Areola -- Settlement, pastoralism and the commons: the ideology and practice of irrigation development in Northern Kenya / Richard Hogg -- Approaches to water resource development, Sokoto Valley, Nigeria: the problem of sustainability / W.M. Adams -- State Policy and Famine in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia: the lessons for conservation / maknun Gamaledinn
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521341998
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521349901
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521341998
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511565335
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