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" This volume] presents an admirable set of case studies on the
effects of modern conservation projects on local peoples from
across the globe. The great strength of the volume lies in the
diversity of cases." - International Journal of African Historical
Studies ." . . this book will be the source material for future
generations of researchers . . . The many arguments in this book
will challenge and hopefully bring forward vigorous debate about
the aims and goals of sustainable development and conservation
tools." - The Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 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. Dawn Chatty is General Editor of Studies in Forced
Migration and teaches at the Center for Refugee Studies of the
University of Oxford. Marcus Colchester works for the Forest
Peoples Programme.
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.
Guyana's environment is in danger of wholesale destruction. In the
name of economic liberalization, this small, indebted country is
promoting a dramatic escalation of logging, mining and other forms
of extraction. In the 1990s, millions of hectares of rainforest
have been leased to foreign companies for logging, while gold
mining is going through a new and devastating boom. The Omai gold
mine disaster of August 1995 was dramatic evidence of the potential
for catastrophe.
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an
in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural
resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational
movement reveals important links between environmental management
and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by
local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been
instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model
programs; the countermapping movement and collective claims to land
and resources; legal strategies for gaining rights to resources and
territories; biodiversity conservation and land stabilization
priorities; and environmental justice and minority rights. This
book will be of value to instructors, practitioners and activists
in anthropology, cultural geography, environmental justice,
environmental policy, political ecology, indigenous rights,
conservation biology, and CBNRM.
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