1st Edition
Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management From Economic Principles to Practical Governance
1. Introduction: poverty, conservation and governance
2. The emergence of Man, governance and rules
3. A brief history of Man’s impact on the planet
4. Institutions and ungoverned spaces
5. Proprietorship
6. Price, markets and exchange
7. The institutional history of wildlife and its governance
8. Changing the game
9. Assessing the economics of wildlife – tools and lessons
10. The Sustainable Governance Approach
11. Kindling CBNRM – history and lessons from CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe
12. Does it take a Village? Is there a difference between participatory and representation governance?
13. The global emergence of CBNRM practice and theory
14. The application of theories of micro-governance to CBNRM
15. Implementing CBNRM
16. Participatory governance and revenue distribution in practice
17. Conclusions
Biography
Brian Child is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Center for Africa Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and Professor Extraordinary in the School of Public Leadership at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. As a wildlife practitioner from southern Africa, he previously managed the CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe and acquired experience in private conservation and park management.
