ABSTRACT
Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation and development challenges. This volume reviews and assesses these initiatives, collecting new research and analyses both from emerging scholars and well-established academics in Uganda and around the globe. Approaches covered range from community-based conservation to the more recent proliferation of neoliberalised interventions based on markets and payments for ecosystem services.
Drawing on insights from political ecology, human geography, institutional economics, and environmental science, the authors explore the challenges of operationalising truly sustainable forms of development in a country whose recent history is characterised by a highly volatile governance and development context. They highlight the stakes for vulnerable human populations in relation to of large and growing socioeconomic inequalities, as well as for Uganda’s rich, unique, and globally significant biodiversity. They illustrate the conflicts that occur between competing claims of conservation, agriculture, tourism, and the energy and mining industries. Crucially, the book draws out lessons that can be learned from the Ugandan experience for conservation and development practitioners and scholars around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|29 pages
Histories and genealogies of Ugandan forest and wildlife conservation
part II|64 pages
Celebrity sites and case studies of conservation, development practice, and research
chapter 4|24 pages
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
chapter 5|19 pages
Managing the contradictions
part III|64 pages
Conservation and development approaches in policy and practice
chapter 8|23 pages
Parks, people, and partnerships
part IV|60 pages
Cross-sectoral dynamics and their links to conservation and development
chapter 11|20 pages
Lost in the woods?
part V|18 pages
Conclusion