"African potentials" for wildlife conservation and natural resource management: against the images of "deficiency" and tyranny of "fortress"
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Meguro, Toshio (HerausgeberIn), Ito, Chihiro (HerausgeberIn), Kirigia, Kariuki (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Mankon, Bamenda Langaa RPCIG [2021]
Schriftenreihe:African potentials volume 6
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Abstract:This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book demonstrates, based on fieldwork concerning various natural resources (e.g. wildlife, forests, fruit, fish and land) as well as many famous protected areas, that African people are collectively and actively trying to solve the environmental problems they are facing by strategically utilising both indigenous means and new extrinsic opportunities. Meanwhile, it also becomes clear that wildlife conservation still continues to cause local societies a multitude of problems, and the 'potentials' of local people and societies are existing but unnoticed and suppressed by powerful outsiders, and therefore, remaining informal and invisible
Umfang:xix, 352 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9789956552856
9956552852