Conservation and Development in Uganda (Earthscan Conservation and Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367586266 ISBN 13: 9780367586263

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation and development challenges. This volume reviews and assesses these initiatives, collecting new research and analyses both from emerging scholars and well-established academics in Uganda and around the globe. Approaches covered range from community-based conservation to the more recent proliferation of neoliberalised interventions based on markets and payments for ecosystem services.

Drawing on insights from political ecology, human geography, institutional economics, and environmental science, the authors explore the challenges of operationalising truly sustainable forms of development in a country whose recent history is characterised by a highly volatile governance and development context. They highlight the stakes for vulnerable human populations in relation to of large and growing socioeconomic inequalities, as well as for Uganda’s rich, unique, and globally significant biodiversity. They illustrate the conflicts that occur between competing claims of conservation, agriculture, tourism, and the energy and mining industries. Crucially, the book draws out lessons that can be learned from the Ugandan experience for conservation and development practitioners and scholars around the world.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Sandbrook is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Director of the Masters in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Connor Joseph Cavanagh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

David Mwesigye Tumusiime is Associate Professor, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and Director, Makerere University Biological Field Station, Uganda.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367586266
• ISBN 13: 9780367586263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Sandbrook Chris, Cavanagh Connor Joseph, Tumusiime David Mwesigye