Conservation and Development in Uganda
Chris Sandbrook editor Connor Joseph Cavanagh editor David Mwesigye Tumusiime editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Jun '20
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Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation and development challenges. This volume reviews and assesses these initiatives, collecting new research and analyses both from emerging scholars and well-established academics in Uganda and around the globe. Approaches covered range from community-based conservation to the more recent proliferation of neoliberalised interventions based on markets and payments for ecosystem services.
Drawing on insights from political ecology, human geography, institutional economics, and environmental science, the authors explore the challenges of operationalising truly sustainable forms of development in a country whose recent history is characterised by a highly volatile governance and development context. They highlight the stakes for vulnerable human populations in relation to of large and growing socioeconomic inequalities, as well as for Uganda’s rich, unique, and globally significant biodiversity. They illustrate the conflicts that occur between competing claims of conservation, agriculture, tourism, and the energy and mining industries. Crucially, the book draws out lessons that can be learned from the Ugandan experience for conservation and development practitioners and scholars around the world.
'This edited volume is a fascinating, useful book as it combines a case study of conservation and development of Uganda with more theoretical and methodological perspectives...So who should read this book? Anyone who is engaged in conservation and development or interested in the varied tools this field uses will find the book to be of value. African scholars will find the book useful for understanding contemporary issues. The book would also be useful for classroom debate, as the studies provide sufficient context to understand the setting and delve into the issues involved'. - Colin A. Chapman, McGill University, Canada in Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319000474)
ISBN: 9780367586263
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Weight: 550g
276 pages