Conservation in Africa : people, policies, and practice / edited by David Anderson and Richard Grove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, David, 1957-

Grove, Richard (Richard H.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Africa.

Nature conservation.

Conservation of natural resources--Africa.

Conservation of natural resources.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Contents:

Introduction: The scramble for Eden: past, present and future in African conservation / David Anderson, Richard Grove 1

Part 1 Conservation ideologies in Africa 13

1 Early themes in African conservation: the Cape in the nineteenth century / Richard Grove 21

2 Chivalry, social Darwinism and ritualised killing: the hunting ethos in Central Africa up to 1914 / John M. Mackenzie 41

3 Colonialism, capitalism and ecological crisis in Malawi: a reassessment / John McCracken 63

4 Conservation with a human face: conflict and reconciliation in African land use planning / Richard Bell 79

Part 2 Wildlife, parks and pastoralists 103

5 Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy / Katherine Homewood, W.A. Rodgers 111

6 Pastoralists and wildlife: image and reality in Kenya Maasailand / David Collett 129

7 Integrating parks and pastoralists: some lessons from Amboseli / W.K. Lindsay 149

8 The Mursi and National Park development in the Lower Omo Valley / Davidturton 169

Part 3 Conservation priorities and rural communities 187

9 Local institutions, tenure and resource management in East Africa / Peter D. Little, David W. Brokensha 193

10 Conflicting uses for forest resources in the Lower Tana River basin of Kenya / Francine Hughes 211

11 Environmental degradation, soil conservation and agricultural policies in Sierra Leone, 1895-1984 / Andre Wmillington 229

12 Managing the forest: the conservation history of Lembus, Kenya, 1904-63 / David Anderson 249

Part 4 Consequences for conservation and development 269

13 The political reality of conservation in Nigeria / Olusegun Areola 277

14 Settlement, pastoralism and the commons: the ideology and practice of irrigation development in Northern Kenya / Richard Hogg 293

15 Approaches to water resource development, Sokoto Valley, Nigeria: the problem of sustainability / W.M. Adams 307

16 State policy and famine in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia: the lessons for conservation / Maknun Gamaledinn 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

052134199X

OCLC:

15489414