African Wildlife and Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation

by Marshall Murphree and David Hulme

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852554141
• ISBN13: 9780852554142
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"