Bushmeat and Livelihoods (eBook, PDF)

Wildlife Management and Poverty Reduction
Redaktion: Davies, Glyn; Brown, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the links between bushmeat and livelihoods in Africa, with a focus on the human dimension of the debate. * * Assembles biological, social and economic perspectives that illuminate the bushmeat debate * Features a series of case studies that explore what species survive different intensities of bushmeat hunting and trapping * Examines the shape and size of household bushmeat consumption and market trading * Reviews governance and institutional impacts on wildlife management; lessons learned from agriculture, forest plant product, and development sectors; and perspectives from Asia and Latin America * Provides an excellent resource for students and policy makers in wildlife management, conservation, and development

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470691694
• Artikelnr.: 38209314

Autorenporträt

Glyn Davies is Director of Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London. A forest ecologist with over 25 years research and management experience, that has included bushmeat investigations in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has published academic papers and policy documents, and compiled management plans. David Brown is a Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in London. A sociologist, he has over 30 years' experience in the tropics, mainly in West-Central Africa and has published extensively on development policy issues, particularly in the forest sector.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction. David Brown and Glyn Davies.

Part 1. Bushmeat: Markets and Households. Glyn Davies andJohn G. Robinson.

1. Hunting and trapping in Gola forests, south-eastern SierraLeone: bushmeat from farm, fallow and forest. Glyn Davies,Björn Schulte-Herbrüggen, Noëlle F. Kümpel& Samantha Mendelson.

2. Livelihoods and sustainability in a bushmeat commodity chainin Ghana. Guy Cowlishaw, Samantha Mendelson & J. MarcusRowcliffe.

3. Bushmeat markets - white elephants or red herrings?John E. Fa.

4. Cameroon: from free gift to valued commodity. The bushmeatcommodity chain around the Dja Reserve. Hilary Solly.

5. Determinants of bushmeat consumption and trade in continentalEquatorial Guinea: an urban-rural comparison. Noëlle F.Kümpel, Tamsyn East, Nick Keylock et al.

6. Livelihoods, hunting and the game meat trade in northernZambia. Taylor Brown & Stuart A. Marks.

Part 2: Institutional contexts. E.J. Milner-Gulland.

7. Is the best the enemy of the good? Institutional andlivelihoods perspectives on bushmeat harvesting and trade -some issues and challenges. David Brown.

8. Bushmeat, wildlife management and good governance: rights andinstitutional arrangements in Namibia's community basednatural resources management programme. Christopher Vaughan& Andrew Long.

9. Wildlife management in a logging concession in NorthernCongo: can livelihoods be maintained through sustainable hunting?J. R. Poulsen, C. J. Clark & G. A. Mavah.

10. Institutional challenges to sustainable bushmeat managementin Central Africa. Andrew Hurst.

Part 3. Extra-Sectoral Influences and Models. JoElliott.

11. Can wildlife and agriculture coexist outside protected areasin Africa? A hopeful model and a case study in Zambia. Dale M.Lewis.

12. Food for thought for the bushmeat trade: lessons from thecommercialisation of plant NTFPs. Elaine Marshall, KathrinSchreckenberg, Adrian Newton et al.

13. Bushmeat, forestry and livelihoods: exploring the coveragein PRSPs. N.M. Bird & C.S. Dickson.

14. The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board(BQCMB): blending knowledge, people and practice for barren-groundcaribou conservation in Northern Canada. R.C. Thompson.

Part 4: Regional perspectives. Glyn Davies & RuthWhitten.

15. Hunting, wildlife trade and wildlife consumption patterns inAsia. Elizabeth L. Bennett.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Through touching on a wide range of issues in the different casestudies, this little volume provides much pertinent backgroundmaterial for reflection by those having to reconcile issues ofbushmeat usage and conservation." (Biodivers Conserv, 2011)