Wildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania
Wildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania
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坦桑尼亚南部的野生动物保护、社区参与保护和(Dis)赋权
DOI:
10.4103/0972-4923.170396
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
R. Kangalawe
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文献类型:
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作者:
C. Noe;R. Kangalawe
The debate about conservation and human welfare (poverty or development) is no longer new in the literature. Yet, poverty and conservation challenges persist. This paper seeks to demonstrate how community involvement in conservation has both empowering and disempowering effects. The paper uses two villages in the Namtumbo district, one representing those villages that are involved in wildlife protection and the other representing those villages that are not involved in conservation. The paper addresses two questions: 1) does community participation in wildlife protection lead to their empowerment? and 2) does empowerment, in turn, lead to community development? Different methods of data collection were used, including quantitative interviews using questionnaire and the qualitative techniques (such as group discussions, observations, and secondary analysis of policies and village documents related to wildlife conservation projects). Findings from these sources drive the main argument of the paper that the relationship between community participation in conservation and economic empowerment remains problematic after two decades of community-based conservation interventions.