Conservation and Development in Uganda

Herausgeber: Sandbrook, Chris; Tumusiime, David Mwesigye; Cavanagh, Connor Joseph

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume reviews and assesses these initiatives various approaches to conservation and development in Uganda, highlighting the stakes both for vulnerable human populations in the context of large and growing socioeconomic inequalities, as well as for Uganda's rich, unique, and globally significant biodiversity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138710924
• ISBN-10: 113871092X
• Artikelnr.: 54242065

Autorenporträt

Chris Sandbrook is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Director of the Masters in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge, UK. Connor Joseph Cavanagh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences. David Mwesigye Tumusiime is Associate Professor, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and Director, Makerere University Biological Field Station, Uganda.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Dynamics of uneven conservation and development in
Uganda 2. Histories and genealogies of Ugandan forest and wildlife
conservation: the birth of the protected area estate 3. An overview of
integrated conservation and development in Uganda Part II: Celebrity sites
and case studies of conservation, development practice, and research 4.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: a celebrity site for integrated
conservation and development in Uganda 5. Managing the contradictions:
conservation, communitarian rhetoric, and conflict at Mount Elgon National
Park 6. Budongo Forest: A paradigm shift in conservation? Part III:
Conservation and development approaches in policy and practice 7. An
environmental justice perspective on the state of Carbon Forestry in Uganda
8. Parks, people, and partnerships: experiments in the governance of
nature-based tourism in Uganda 9. Cultural values and conservation: an
innovative approach to community engagement Part IV: Cross-sectoral
dynamics and their links to conservation and development 10. Conservation
and agriculture: finding an optimal balance? 11. Lost in the woods? A
political economy of the 1998 forest sector reform in Uganda 12. Dialectics
of conservation, extractives, and Uganda's 'land rush' Part V: Conclusion
13. Conservation, development, and the politics of ecological knowledge in
Uganda