Conservation in Africa
Peoples, Policies and Practice

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
Introduction: the scramble for Eden: past, present and future in African conservation David Anderson and Richard Grove
Part I. Conservation Ideologies in Africa: Introduction William Beinart
1. Early themes in African conservation: the Cape in the nineteenth century Richard Grove
2. Chivalry, social Darwinism and ritualised killing: the hunting ethos in Central Africa up to 1914 John M. MacKenzie
3. Colonialism, capitalism and ecological crisis in Malawi: a reassessment John McCracken
4. Conservation with a human face: conflict and reconciliation in African land use planning Richard Bell
Part II. Wildlife, Parks and Pastoralists: Introduction Paul Howell
5. Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy Katherine Homewood and W. A. Rodgers
6. Pastoralists and wildlife: image and reality in Kenya Maasailand David Collett
7. Integrating parks and pastoralists: some lessons from Amboseli W. K. Lindsay
8. The Mursi and National Park development in the Lower Omo Valley David Turton
Part III. Conservation priorities and rural communities: Introduction John McCracken
9. Local institutions, tenure and resource management in East Africa Peter D. Little and David W. Brokensha
10. Conflicting uses for forest resources in the Lower Tana River basin of Kenya Francine Hughes
11. Environmental degradation, soil conservation and agricultural policies in Sierra Leone, 1895–1984 Andrew Millington
12. Managing the forest: the conservation history of Lembus, Kenya, 1904–63 David Anderson
Part IV. Consequences for Conservation and Development: Introduction John Lonsdale
13. The political reality of conservation in Nigeria Olusegun Areola
14. Settlement, pastoralism and the commons: the ideology and practice of irrigation development in Northern Kenya Richard Hogg
15. Approaches to water resource development, Sokoto Valley, Nigeria: the problem of sustainability W. M. Adams
16. State policy and famine in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia: the lessons for conservation Maknun Gamaledinn
Index.

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