Latitude:
-6.00
Longitude:
35.00
GeoNames ID:
149 590
Tanzania
“Austere Conservation: Understanding Conflicts over Resource Governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas”
The authors examine how public participation is structured in the regime of rules over access to land, natural, and financial resources of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania.
"Creating Landscapes of Coexistence: Do Conservation Interventions Promote Tolerance of Lions in Human-dominated Landscapes?"
This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.
"Poachers and Poverty: Assessing Objective and Subjective Measures of Poverty among Illegal Hunters Outside Ruaha National Park, Tanzania"
The authors study the relationship between poverty and poaching using a sample of 173 self-admitted poachers dwelling in villages near Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
Review of Nature of Spectacle by Jim Igoe
Andrés León Araya reviews Jim Igoe’s The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conservation Capitalism.
"Living in a Cage: The Intimate Geographies of Conservation in South Africa and Tanzania"
John Reid-Hresko’s article draws on 18 months of comparative ethnographic research with men and women who are employed and reside in protected areas in northern Tanzania and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
"Tourism Taxation, Politics and Territorialisation in Tanzania's Wildlife Management"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel Sulle and Holti Banka explore the impacts of taxes imposed on tourism activities occurring on communal lands and the emerging politics of resource and revenue sharing among Wildlife Management Area (WMA) member villages in Tanzania.
"Turbulent Terrains: The Contradictions and Politics of Decentralised Conservation"
In this Special Section on the Green Economy in the South, V. Corey Wright contributes to the debate about Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the nature of decentralization. He argues that WMAs represent risk but also an opportunity for rural communities.
"What Does Conservation Mean for Women? The Case of the Cantanhez Forest National Park"
Susana Costa, Catarina Casanova, and Phyllis Lee present a study of the obstacles to women’s participation in conservation strategies associated with Cantanhez Forest National Park (CFNP), in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The findings revealed that the women felt the Park was responsible for malnutrition in the communities due to damage of crops by wildlife.
"Environment, Memory, and the Groundnut Scheme: Britain’s Largest Colonial Agricultural Development Project and Its Global Legacy"
This article focuses on perceptions and memories of the “Groundnut Scheme”, an enacted peanut monoculture in East Africa and one of the largest colonial agricultural development initiatives in history, trying in particular to trace the different functions that were assigned to the social and ecological landscape of Tanganyika.