Conservation, Development and Changing Property Relations in Rural Tanzania

佛罗里达国际大学的这项研究分析了综合保护-发展项目(ICDPS)对坦桑尼亚塞卢斯野生动物保护区缓冲区内两个社区农村财产关系的影响。其目的是解释这种组织如何影响财产关系，并调查确定习惯权利和影响习惯权利的过程。这项工作将通过展示地方性的产权斗争、谈判和竞争如何与面向全球的生物多样性保护战略相互作用，来推进政治生态理论领域。这项研究还旨在提供社区的比较分析，以及评估随着时间的推移保护干预措施的效果。方法包括访谈、参与者观察、土地利用调查和制图以及档案研究。

Florida International University The research analyzes the effects of integrated conservation-development projects (ICDPs) on rural property relations in two communities within the Selous Game Reserve buffer zone, Tanzania. The intent is to explain how such organizations affect property relations and investigate the process by which customary rights are identified and impacted upon. The work will advance the area of political ecology theory by showing how local struggles, negotiations, and contests over property rights interact with globally oriented strategies for biodiversity conservation. The research is also designed to provide a comparative analysis of the communities as well as evaluate the effects of conservation interventions over time. Methodologies include interviews, participant observation, land use surveys and mapping, and archival research.