TUM Library

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction -- 1. Dynamics of uneven conservation and development in Uganda -- --Connor Joseph Cavanagh, Chris Sandbrook, and David Mwesigye Tumusiime -- 2. Histories and genealogies of Ugandan forest and wildlife conservation: the birth of the protected area estate -- --Abwoli Yebezi Banana, Steve Nsita, and Allan Bomuhangi -- 3. An overview of integrated conservation and development in Uganda -- --Medard Twinamatsiko, Julia Baker, Phil Franks, Mark Infield, Fran Oolsthom, and Dilys Roe -- Part II: Celebrity sites and case studies of conservation, development practice, and research -- 4. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: a celebrity site for integrated conservation and development in Uganda -- --David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Robert Bitariho, and Chris Sandbrook -- 5. Managing the contradictions: conservation, communitarian rhetoric, and conflict at Mount Elgon National Park -- --David Himmelfarb and Connor Joseph Cavanagh -- 6. Budongo Forest: a paradigm shift in conservation? -- --Fred Babweteera, Christopher Mawa, Caroline Asiimwe, Eric Okwir, Geoffrey Muhanguzi, John Paul Okimat, and Sarah Robinson -- Part III: Conservation and development approaches in policy and practice -- 7. An environmental justice perspective on the state of Carbon Forestry in Uganda -- --Adrian Nel, Kristen Lyons, Janet Fisher, and David Mwayafu -- 8. Parks, people, and partnerships: experiments in the governance of nature-based tourism in Uganda -- --Wilber M. Ahebwa, Chris Sandbrook, and Amos Ochieng -- 9. Cultural values and conservation: an innovative approach to community engagement -- --Mark Infield and Arthur Mugisha -- Part IV: Cross-sectoral dynamics and their links to conservation and development -- 10. Conservation and agriculture: finding an optimal balance? -- --Katy Jeary, Matt Kandel, Giuliano Martiniello, and Ronald Twongyirwe -- 11. Lost in the woods? A political economy of the 1998 forest sector reform in Uganda -- --Jon Geir Petursson and Paul Vedeld -- 12. Dialectics of conservation, extractives, and Ugandas land rush -- --Patrick Byakagaba, Bashir Twesigye, and Leslie E. Ruyle -- Part V: Conclusion -- 13. Conservation, development, and the politics of ecological knowledge in Uganda -- --Connor Joseph Cavanagh, Chris Sandbrook, and David Mwesigye Tumusiime.

Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Ugandahasbeen seenas a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connectedconservation 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 coveredrange from community-based conservationto 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 highlyvolatile governance and development context. They highlight the stakes for vulnerable human populations in relation toof 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 bookdraws out lessons that can be learned from the Ugandan experience for conservation and development practitioners and scholars around the world.

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