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Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation: Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas book cover

1st Edition

Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

Edited By Helen Suich, Brian Child Copyright 2009
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge
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The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates.  Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional 'fines and fences' conservation that occurred in the colonial and early post-independence... Read more

Part 1: Overview 

1. Conservation in Transition 

Part 2: History of State-led Conservation 

2. The Emergence of Parks and Conservation Narratives in Southern Africa 

3. National Parks in South Africa 

4. The Growth of Park Conservation in Botswana 

5. The Emergence of Modern Conservation Practice in Zimbabwe 

6. Protected Areas in Mozambique 

Part 3: Conservation on Private Land 

7. Private Conservation in southern Africa: Practice and emerging Principles 

8. Game Ranching in Namibia 

9. Game Ranching in Zimbabwe 

10. Extensive Wildlife Production on Private Land in South Africa 

11. Save Valley Conservancy: A Large-scale African Experiment in Cooperative Wildlife Management 

Part 4: Community-based Natural Resource Management 

12. Community Conservation in Southern Africa: Rights-based Natural Resource Management 

13. The Performance of CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe 1989-2006 

14. CBNRM in Namibia: Growth, Trends, Lessons and Constraints 

15. CBNRM in Botswana 

16. CBNRM in Mozambique: The Challenges of Sustainability 

Part 5: Integrating Wildlife and Parks into the Social Landscape 

17. Recent Innovations in Conservation 

18. Changing Institutions to Respond to Challenges: North West Parks, South Africa 

19. Making Conservation Work: Innovative Approaches to Meeting Conservation and Socio-economic Objectives (an Example from the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa 

20. Table Mountain National Park 

21. A Network of Marine Protected Areas in Mozambique 

22. Towards Transformation: Contractual National Parks in South Africa 

23. Transfrontier Conservation Initiatives in Southern Africa: Observations from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area 

24. Making 'Conventional' Parks Relevant to All of Society: The Case of SANParks 

25. Privately Managed Protected Areas 

Part 6: Conclusions 

26: ~Innovations in State, Private and Communal Conservation

Biography

Helen Suich is a development and resource economist, policy adviser, project manager. 

Brian Child is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Florida, USA and editor of Parks in Transition (2004). 

Anna Spenceley is editor of Responsible Tourism (2008).

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