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Title:Conservation-Related Resettlement in Central Africa: Environmental and Social Risks
Author:Schmidt-Soltau, KaiISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Development and Change
Volume:34
Issue:3
Period:June
Pages:525-551
Language:English
Geographic term:Central Africa
Subjects:resettlement
national parks and reserves
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00317
Abstract:Since the Rio Conference of 1992, which declared the conservation of biodiversity and the creation of national parks to be priorities, resettlements resulting from conservation projects in Central Africa have been on the increase, as people living inside protected areas are relocated. Hardly any of these resettlements have been successful. There has been resistance to moving in the first place, and even returns to former villages inside the national parks. Resettlement is still the most common way to deal with people who happen to live in African national parks, but the risks which arise from these resettlements have led some scientists to rethink their position. This article focuses on the Congo River Basin. It reviews the only 'official' relocation programme in the region (Korup National Park, Cameroon) and evaluates different approaches of national parks in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville) and Gabon. The author uses the Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction model introduced by M.M. Cernea (2000) to evaluate the risks faced by the resettled populations, and to elaborate some social and environmental guidelines to mitigate them. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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