Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land

by Nelson, Fred

• ISBN13: 9781844079162
• ISBN10: 1844079163
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests negotiate for access to and control over resources. These political processes determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, such as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities. This volume examines the dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa, in an effort to better understand the factors that account for the different outcomes of reform efforts in different contexts. These cases examine issues such as land tenure, of tourism development, and wildlife conservation, and participatory forest management, and are drawn from the work of both academics and field practitioners from across the region. .

Author Biography

Fred Nelson has worked as a scholar and practitioner on natural resource governance in east Africa for over ten years. He has worked in the field with local communities in northern Tanzania to establish more equitable and beneficial resource governance arrangements and has researched the political economy of natural resource management across east and southern Africa. His work has been published in journals such as Conservation Biology, Development Change and Biodiversity Conservation.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction
Introduction: The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa	p. 3
Agrarian Social Change and Post-Colonial Natural Resource Management Interventions in Southern Africa's 'Communal Tenure' Regimes	p. 32
Political Economies of Natural Resource Governance
The Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana	p. 55
Peasants' Forests and the King's Game? Institutional Divergence and Convergence in Tanzania's Forestry and Wildlife Sectors	p. 79
The Evolution of Namibia's Communal Conservancies	p. 106
Historic and Contemporary Struggles for a Local Wildlife Governance Regime in Kenya	p. 121
Local Struggles and Negotiations across Multiple Scales
Windows of Opportunity or Exclusion? Local Communities in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, South Africa	p. 147
'People are Not Happy': Crisis, Adaptation and Resilience in Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE Programme	p. 174
The Rise and Fall of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Zambia's Luangwa Valley: An Illustration of Micro- and Macro-Governance Issues	p. 202
External Agency and Local Authority: Facilitating CBNRM in Mahel, Mozambique	p. 227
Adaptive or Anachronistic? Maintaining Indigenous Natural Resource Governance Systems in Northern Botswana	p. 241
Pastoral Activists: Negotiating Power Imbalances in the Tanzanian Serengeti	p. 269
Looking Forward
A Changing Climate for Community Resource Governance: Threats and Opportunities from Climate Change and the Emerging Carbon Market	p. 293
Democratizing Natural Resource Governance: Searching for Institutional Change	p. 310
Index
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