Common Property Resource Management of an Afro-alpine Ecosystem | Supporting a population of the Critically Endangered Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis)

Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi

ISBN 10: 6202280689 / ISBN 13: 9786202280686

Published by Éditions universitaires européennes, 2018

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Common Property Resource Management of an Afro-alpine Ecosystem | Supporting a population of the Critically Endangered Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis) | Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi | Taschenbuch | 292 S. | Englisch | 2018 | Éditions universitaires européennes | EAN 9786202280686 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Common Property Resource Management of an Afro-alpine Ecosystem | Supporting a population of the Critically Endangered Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis)
• Publisher: Éditions universitaires européennes
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6202280689
• ISBN 13: 9786202280686
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 18D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 453 grams
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Synopsis

In areas where national parks are unlikely to be economically viable or socially desirable, an alternative approach is required. Community-led conservation initiatives are one possible approach. Their eventual success requires both an understanding of the ecosystem itself and of the interaction between the indigenous population and the varying components of the ecosystem that they utilise. In this thesis I investigate the indigenous common property resource management system in the Guassa area of Menz in the central highlands of Ethiopia, and the consequences of resource utilisation by the community on the populations of rodents, and of the critically endangered Ethiopian wolf. The area traditionally has been, and still is, a valuable natural resource for the local community that depend on it primarily for thatching grass, firewood and grazing. The indigenous resource management system was structured under an indigenous resource management institution, known locally as the Qero system, for around 400 years. The system was based on descent groups from founding fathers who agreed on division of the land in 17th century, and further supported by the authority of the church.