Conservation and Community in Kenya: Milking the Elephant - Couverture souple

Lesorogol, Carolyn K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1793650314 ISBN 13 : 9781793650313

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

Community-based wildlife conservation is promoted as a win-win solution for wildlife and people that protects biodiversity while improving the economic status of communities living among wildlife. This book, based on mixed-method anthropological research conducted in Samburu County, Kenya, demonstrates that, counter to simple narratives promising benefits, community-based wildlife conservancies (CBCs) are complex social institutions layered on pre-existing land use practices with differential impacts for members. Through in-depth research in three communities, Carolyn K. Lesorogol explains how diverse social actors understand and operate CBCs, how benefits and costs are distributed, the gendered nature of CBCs, and how they impact cooperation and conflict in communities. Lesorogol's analysis shows that economic benefits to members are generally very limited, and while many perceive improvements in security emanating from CBCs, there is also evidence that they heighten tensions over land use as well as human-wildlife conflict. Looking toward the future, the book includes recommendations for improving the effectiveness and accountability of CBCs. Conservation and Community in Kenya: Milking the Elephant offers critical insights into the implications of the CBC model for local pastoralist livelihoods, conservation, and social relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carolyn K. Lesorogol is professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1793650314
• ISBN 13: 9781793650313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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