Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

by Chatty, Dawn; Colchester, Marcus

• ISBN13: 9781571818423
• ISBN10: 1571818421
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects can have tremendous impact on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory. The contributors to this collection of case studies, social scientists as well as natural scientists, are concerned with this human element in biodiversity. They examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities forced to move or to settle elsewhere in order to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed, as well as local participatory, conservation projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and South Eastern Asia, Australia and Latin America. There are lessons to be learned from recent efforts in community managed conservation and this volume significantly contributes to that discussion.A more comprehensive version, that includes all papers, in revised form, from the conference on which the volume is based, will be available on our website.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples	p. 1
Negotiating the Tropical Forest: Colonizing Farmers and Lumber Resources in the Ticoporo Reserve	p. 21
Compatibility of Pastoralism and Conservation? A Test Case using Integrated Assessment in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania	p. 36
Giving Conservation a Human Face? Lessons from Forty Years of Combining Conservation and Development in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania	p. 61
National Parks and Human Ecosystems: The Challenge to Community Conservation. A Case Study from Simanjiro, Tanzania	p. 77
The Mursi and the Elephant Question	p. 97
Forced Resettlement, Rural Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation along the Ugalla River in Tanzania	p. 119
The Influence of Forced Removals and Land Restitution on Conservation in South Africa	p. 142
How Sustainable is the Communalizing Discourse of 'New' Conservation? The Masking of Difference, Inequality and Aspiration in the Fledging 'Conservancies' of Namibia	p. 158
Representing the Resettled: The Ethical Issues Raised by Research and Representation of the San	p. 188
Negev Bedouin: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Conservation	p. 202
Customs Excised: Arid Land Conservation in Syria	p. 212
Animal Reintroduction Projects in the Middle East: Conservation without a Human Face	p. 227
Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Culture in a Greek Island Community: The Dispute over the Sea Turtles	p. 244
Displacement and Forced Settlement: Gypsies in Tamilnadu	p. 261
Karen and the Land in Between: Public and Private Enclosure of Forests in Thailand	p. 277
Lost Worlds and Local People: Protected Areas Development in Viet Nam	p. 296
The History of Displacement and Forced Settlement in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Implications for Co-managing Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve	p. 313
Planning for Community-based Management and Conservation Areas: Indigenous Forest Management and Conservation of Biodiversity in the Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia	p. 329
Resettlement and Natural Resources in Halmahera, Indonesia	p. 347
Welcome to Aboriginal Land: Anangu Ownership and Management of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park	p. 362
Index of Subjects	p. 377
Index of Names	p. 386
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