African Wildlife and Livelihoods
The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation

This volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.

Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role in shaping the incentives for conservation. The editors and contributors of this volume examine the success or otherwise of these practices in a number of different contexts across the continent. North America: Heinemann; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Part 1 Setting the scene: conservation and communities, William Adams and D. Hulme
community conservation from concept to practice - a practical framework, Edmund Barrow and Marshall Murphree. Part 2 Conservation policies and institutions: the evolution of policy in Namibia and Zimbabwe, Brian Jones and M. Murphree
community conservation in East Africa, Edmund Barrow et al
the political economy of community conservation policy in Mozambique, Simon Anstey
reforming a conservation bureaucracy in Tanzania, Patrick Bergin. Part 3 Parks and people revisited -community conservation as projected area outreach: Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda, D. Hulme and Mark Infield
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda, William Adams and Mark Infield
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (1992-97), Kadzo Kangwana and Rafael Ole Mako. Part 4 Developing management: the evolution of a community-based approach to wildlife management at Kunene, Namibia, Brian Jones
community conservation and private business (Mahenye, Zimbabwe), M. Murphree
community conservation designed by the community (Mozambique), Simon Anstey and Camila de Sousa. Part 5 Economics, incentives and institutional change: the nature of benefits and the benefits of nature, Lucy Emerton
economic incentives and institutional change in Zimbabwe, Ivan Bond
committees, rights, costs and benefits (Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme), James Murombedzi. Part 6 Measuring and monitoring conservation: can community conservation strategies meet the conservation agenda?, Kadzo Kangwana
participatory natural resource management - implications for conservation, Russell Taylor. Part 7 Conclusions: the future of community conservation
community conservation and beyond.