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| Title: | The Okavango Delta and the 'end of progress': global transformation and community based wildlife management |
| Author: | Hasler, Richard |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090) |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Pages: | 93-100 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | popular participation wildlife protection deltas Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Environment, Ecology Okavango River Delta (Botswana) Environmental protection Wildlife management political participation Economic and social development land tenure government policy |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980241 |
| Abstract: | Community-based wildlife management in the Okavango Delta needs to be analysed and understood within the broader political, ecological and economic trends affecting Botswana as a whole. A range of issues, including global economics, competing land use strategies, tenure regimes, global climate change, village economics and settlement patterns, the role of donor agencies, and the economic and political transformation of Botswana society in the last thirty years, all impact on the prospects for community-based wildlife management. Some key assumptions upon which community-based wildlife management has been based need further discussion. Thus communities are not autonomous, homogeneous spatial entities; communities form part of the State and have a considerable amount of their identity determined by State administrative processes; and communities are strongly affected by international or global decisionmaking processes. The future development of community wildlife management in the Okavango Delta will depend to a large extent on how these three factors are incorporated into planning and management. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |
