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If community conservation is the answer in Africa, what is the question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

W. M. Adams  and
D. Hulme
D. Hulme
Affiliation:
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9GH, UK. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Proponents of community conservation present it as a means of reconciling conservation and development objectives by ensuring that the interests of local people are taken into account in making trade-offs. Conservation critics see it as a challenge to the state-led, scientific management that is necessary to guarantee the preservation of biodiversity. In this paper, we argue that community conservation is not one thing but many. It is evolving both as a concept and as a practice that must be built on. It is not a project or policy ‘choice’ that can be simply accepted or rejected. The key questions about community conservation are who should set the objectives for conservation policy on the ground and how should trade-offs between the diverse objectives of different interests be negotiated.

Keywords

Africacommunity conservationconservation policydevelopment
Type
Forum
Information
Oryx , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 193 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 2001

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