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

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 the incentives for conservation. The editors and contributors of this volume examine the success or otherwise of these practices in a number of different contexts across the continent.

Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

DAVID HULME is Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.
MARSHALL MURPHREE is chairman of the Sustainable Usse Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).