| dc.creator |
Noe, Christine |
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| dc.creator |
Budeanu, Adriana |
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| dc.creator |
Sulle, Emmanuel |
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| dc.creator |
Fog Olwig, Mette |
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| dc.creator |
Brockington, Dan |
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| dc.creator |
John, Ruth |
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| dc.date |
2018-09-05T12:12:25Z |
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| dc.date |
2018-09-05T12:12:25Z |
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| dc.date |
2017 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2021-05-07T09:35:52Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2021-05-07T09:35:52Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Noe, C. et al. (2007). Partnerships for wildlife protection and their sustainability outcomes: A literature review. Nepsus Working Paper 2017/2 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4793 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4793 |
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| dc.description |
The rhetoric of a ‘win-win-win’ situation – which represents simultaneous achievement of
economic growth, environmental protection and social development – is central to the
emergence of community-based wildlife protection efforts that involve new partnerships
between actors such as local communities, businesses and government agencies. The
win-win rhetoric furthers the logic that the more partners, the more wins – yet the current
knowledge base lacks clear criteria for evaluating partnerships. This working paper uses
political ecology as a conceptual lens to propose such criteria. We suggest examining
partnerships not only based on their complexity, but also how they are formed and gain
legitimacy in different contexts and how various partnership configurations engender
particular kinds of ecological and socio-economic outcomes. Based on a review of the
literature about partnerships and their impacts, and drawing on insights from Tanzania’s
wildlife sector, we establish three groups of literature that emphasize the benefits of
partnerships: one focusing on landscape conservation, another on governance reforms
and the last on tourism related businesses. In these three groups of literature,
partnerships are claimed to improve the effectiveness of biodiversity governance by
securing land, facilitating local developments and by creating business links. Building on
critiques from political ecology we conclude by questioning this win-win-win rhetoric
arguing that partnerships only lead to wins for specific actors thereby indirectly
aggravating local power struggles. They do so by supporting rent seeking and the rise of
local elites while simultaneously concealing the marginalization of other actors and
thereby effectively contributing to the continued loss of local land rights. |
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| dc.publisher |
NEPSUS |
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| dc.subject |
partnerships, wildlife, community-based conservation and sustainability |
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| dc.title |
Partnerships for wildlife protection and their sustainability outcomes: A literature review |
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| dc.type |
Working Paper |
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