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| Title: | Evolution and innovation in wildlife conservation: parks and game ranches to transfrontier conservation areas |
| Editors: | Suich, Helen Child, Brian  Spenceley, Anna |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 462 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Earthscan |
| ISBN: | 9781844076345; 9780415520447 |
| Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | wildlife protection national parks and reserves private sector community participation |
| Abstract: | This collective volume chronicles southern Africa's search for a new conservation paradigm that is politically resilient and relevant to society. The book includes four sections providing case studies that reflect the temporal evolution of new ideas on wildlife conservation. This evolution has taken the conceptual development of conservation through several phases related to 1) biological conservation, biogeography and the ecosystem approach; 2) economic instrumentalism based on property rights and neo-liberal concepts of resource allocation and market economies; 3) political ecology and political organization related to environmental justice and the challenge of how communities and landholders should be organized to control and manage conservation; and 4) institutional ecology that tries to understand how the way conservation is organized and governed affects power and incentives, and therefore conservation outcomes. Contents: Part I - Overview; Part II - History of state-led conservation; Part III - Conservation on private land; Part IV - Community-based natural resource management; Part V - Integrating wildlife and parks into the social landscape; Part VI - Conclusion. |
