Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania

Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania.

Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources.

Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of interventions in governing natural resources, this book analyses different types of sustainability partnerships - with donors, governments, business, NGOs and other actors, and, crucially, assesses which result in better livelihood and environmental outcomes.

The contributors, from a range of disciplines, compare 'more complex' partnerships to relatively 'simpler', more traditional top-down and centralized management systems and to location where sustainability partnerships are not in place. Within-sector comparisons allow a fine-tuned analysis that is formed of historical, location and resource-specific issues, which can be used as input for resource-specific policy and partnership design. Experiences and lessons can be drawn from comparisons across the three different sectors, which can be applied to natural resource governance more broadly.

This book is openly available in digital formats under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School. His books include Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Market Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa (2002), and co-editing The Green Economy in the Global South (2017).

Christine Noe is an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is a contributor to David Potts (ed), Tanzanian Development (James Currey, 2019). Her research is on conservation and development politics.

Dan Brockington is a Research Professor at ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is author of Fortress Conservation (James Currey, 2002), and, with Stefano Ponte, co-edited The Green Economy in the Global South (2017). His research covers the social impacts of conservation and long term livelihood change in East Africa.

Caleb Gallemore holds a Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University and is an assistant professor in the International Affairs Program at Lafayette College in the United States. His research interests include land-use telecoupling, world cities, environmental policy networks, and social theory.

Kelvin Joseph Kamnde holds an MSc degree in Geo-information science and earth observation from ITC university of Twente Netherlands. He is currently enrolled in the PhD programme at the University of Dar es Salaam, where is he also an Assistant Lecturer. Kelvin has broad experience in applying GIS and RS in planning, monitoring and assessment of natural resources, service provision, climate observations, hazard, risk assessment and prediction. He is an expert in spatial tracking, spatial modellings for resources state assessment and predictions, and in the creation of spatial databases and web databases.