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Staying Maasai?
Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Taschenbuch von Katherine Homewood (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world¿s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world¿s most outstanding biodiversity resources.

Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation.

This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.
The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world¿s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world¿s most outstanding biodiversity resources.

Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation.

This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.
Zusammenfassung

First to look at community-based conservation efforts in eastern Africa

Cross-border comparison aids in determining proven methods that work and don't work

Based on three decades of the community conservation effort and reported by an international group of contributors

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Family Portraits - Mara.- Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand.- Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods.- Maasai Mara - Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?.- Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela.- Family Portraits - Amboseli.- Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya.- Family Portraits - Longido.- Still "People of Cattle"? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District.- Family Portraits - Tarangire.- Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.- Community-Based Conservation and Maasai Livelihoods in Tanzania.- Policy and Practice in Kenya Rangelands: Impacts on Livelihoods and Wildlife.- Staying Maasai? Pastoral Livelihoods, Diversification and the Role of Wildlife in Development.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xvi
418 S.
103 s/w Illustr.
103 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9780387874913
ISBN-10: 0387874917
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 12169962
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Homewood, Katherine
Kristjanson, Patti
Trench, P.
Redaktion: Homewood, Katherine
Trench, P.
Kristjanson, Patti
Herausgeber: Katherine Homewood/Patti Kristjanson/P Trench
Hersteller: Springer US
Springer New York
Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Homewood (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,657 kg
Artikel-ID: 101714215
Zusammenfassung

First to look at community-based conservation efforts in eastern Africa

Cross-border comparison aids in determining proven methods that work and don't work

Based on three decades of the community conservation effort and reported by an international group of contributors

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Family Portraits - Mara.- Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand.- Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods.- Maasai Mara - Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?.- Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela.- Family Portraits - Amboseli.- Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya.- Family Portraits - Longido.- Still "People of Cattle"? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District.- Family Portraits - Tarangire.- Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.- Community-Based Conservation and Maasai Livelihoods in Tanzania.- Policy and Practice in Kenya Rangelands: Impacts on Livelihoods and Wildlife.- Staying Maasai? Pastoral Livelihoods, Diversification and the Role of Wildlife in Development.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xvi
418 S.
103 s/w Illustr.
103 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9780387874913
ISBN-10: 0387874917
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 12169962
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Homewood, Katherine
Kristjanson, Patti
Trench, P.
Redaktion: Homewood, Katherine
Trench, P.
Kristjanson, Patti
Herausgeber: Katherine Homewood/Patti Kristjanson/P Trench
Hersteller: Springer US
Springer New York
Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Homewood (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,657 kg
Artikel-ID: 101714215
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