Wildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania

dc.creatorNoe, Christine
dc.creatorKangalawe, Richard Y. M.
dc.date2016-04-22T10:57:19Z
dc.date2016-04-22T10:57:19Z
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T09:09:30Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T09:09:30Z
dc.descriptionThe debate about conservation and human welfare (poverty or development) is no longer new in the literature. Yet, poverty and conservation challenges persist. This paper seeks to demonstrate how community involvement in conservation has both empowering and disempowering effects. The paper uses two villages in the Namtumbo district, one representing those villages that are involved in wildlife protection and the other representing those villages that are not involved in conservation. The paper addresses two questions: 1) does community participation in wildlife protection lead to their empowerment? and 2) does empowerment, in turn, lead to community development? Different methods of data collection were used, including quantitative interviews using questionnaire and the qualitative techniques (such as group discussions, observations, and secondary analysis of policies and village documents related to wildlife conservation projects). Findings from these sources drive the main argument of the paper that the relationship between community participation in conservation and economic empowerment remains problematic after two decades of community-based conservation interventions.
dc.identifierNoe, C. and Kangalawe, R.Y., 2015. Wildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania. Conservation and Society, 13(3), p.244.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1627
dc.identifier10.4103/0972-4923.170396
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4715
dc.languageen
dc.subjectCommunity-based conservation
dc.subjectConservation and development
dc.subject(dis)empowerment
dc.subjectHuman-wildlife conflicts
dc.subjectLivelihood insecurity
dc.subjectWildlife management areas
dc.subjectNamtumbo
dc.subjectSouthern Tanzania
dc.titleWildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

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