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How successful has community-based natural resource management, the dominant development paradigm in much of sub-Saharan Africa since the late 1990s, been in reducing poverty, empowering communities and protecting wildlife and habitats?
Launched in the late 1980s as a programme that would combine nature and biodiversity conservation with poverty alleviation, CBNRM has shaped policies in forestry management, rural water-management and wildlife management, while local communities have been encouraged to establish well-defined and membership-based organisations with a clearly defined territory, land-management plans and options to liaise with the private sector.
In the face of criticism and waning enthusiasm, this volume uses cases studies from southern and eastern Africa to assess CBNRM projects and offer solutions for conservation and development problems that have characterised many programmes in the region. Should the movement embrace initiatives that pivot on public-private partnerships and implement CBNRM as 'fortress conservation'? Should conservation policies continue to hinge on commoditising nature and global-local market forces? Or should conservation approaches and models break with such neoliberal ordering and instead, design new, alternative ways to distribute the added value that nature and land resources present? How would community conservation look like if wildlife, and other natural resources, are conceptualised as common goods and not as commodities?
Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).
This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation), funding code Samimi 0065525, the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the collaborative research center 'Future Rural Africa', funding code TRR 228/3 and the European Union funded ERC Advanced Grant REWILDING, project number: 101020976.
Launched in the late 1980s as a programme that would combine nature and biodiversity conservation with poverty alleviation, CBNRM has shaped policies in forestry management, rural water-management and wildlife management, while local communities have been encouraged to establish well-defined and membership-based organisations with a clearly defined territory, land-management plans and options to liaise with the private sector.
In the face of criticism and waning enthusiasm, this volume uses cases studies from southern and eastern Africa to assess CBNRM projects and offer solutions for conservation and development problems that have characterised many programmes in the region. Should the movement embrace initiatives that pivot on public-private partnerships and implement CBNRM as 'fortress conservation'? Should conservation policies continue to hinge on commoditising nature and global-local market forces? Or should conservation approaches and models break with such neoliberal ordering and instead, design new, alternative ways to distribute the added value that nature and land resources present? How would community conservation look like if wildlife, and other natural resources, are conceptualised as common goods and not as commodities?
Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).
This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation), funding code Samimi 0065525, the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the collaborative research center 'Future Rural Africa', funding code TRR 228/3 and the European Union funded ERC Advanced Grant REWILDING, project number: 101020976.
Price: $49.95
Pages: 448
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Currey
Publication Date:
05 January 2027
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781847014351
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, NATURE / Indigenous Stewardship, Environmental management, Environmental economics, Development studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Rural communities
Prologue: Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Past, Present and Future(s)
Paul Hebinck (+), Michael Bollig, Richard Kiaka, Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, Eberhard Rothfuß and Cyrus Samimi
Part I. Conceptions
1.Community-Based Conservation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Political Ecology and Multispecies Perspectives on Co-Existence in Challenged Rural Landscapesation
Michael Bollig
2.What Is CBNRM and Has It Been Tried? Past, Present and Future in Africa?
Brian Child, Aaron King, Alex Chidakel and Tierney Shimansky
3.Embedding Environmental and Social Safeguards in Namibia's Community Conservation
Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Lendelvo and Alfons Mosimane
4.Reflections on the Process of Modernization and Its Paradoxes in CBNRM: The Case of Nyae Nyae-Conservancy and Community Forest in Otiozondiupa Region (Namibia)
Özge Dolunay and Eberhard Rotfuß
5.Community-Based Management of Forest Resources in Southern Africa
Paxie W. Chirwa, Trinitas Senganimalunje, Ratsodo P. Tshidzumba and Amani J. Uisso
Part II. Vulnerabilities and Resilience
6."Hanging by a thread": An Analysis of Vulnerabilities Facing Maasai Group Conservancies in Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya
Richard Dimba Kiaka, Joy Oakes and Jennifer Wanyingi
7.Towards Resilient Social-Ecological Systems: Covid-19's Impact on Community Conservancies in Namibia's Zambezi Region
Lars Lüder, Sakeus Kadhikwa, Stéphanie Domptail and Linus Kalvelage
8.From State Control to Participatory Approaches: Forest Management Experiences in Kenya
J. K. Musyoki, M.L.F. Ming'ate and M.T.E. Mbuvi
9.Contributions of Community-Based Natural Management Towards Climate-Change Adaptation and Mitigation in a Semi-Arid Savannah: Insights from Botswana and Zimbabwe
Olga Laiza Kupika, Victor K. Muposhi, Ruth Chinomona, Hebert Pikela and Gladman Chibememe
Part III. Benefit Sharing and Costs
10.Problematising the Concept of 'Benefits' in CBNRM
Gladman Thondhlana
11.Trophy Hunting in Namibian Community Conservancies
Nicoli Nattrass
12.The Community-Based Water Management Paradigm and Its Implications Within Two Pastoral Contexts in Namibia
Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
13.Financial Devolution in Community-Based Conservation: Comparative Insights from the Member States of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) in Southern Africa
Fabio Schleicher
Part IV. Politics, Power and Participation
14.The Promise of Community-Based Rewilding: Innovation, Hopes and Uncertainties in Simalaha, Southwestern Zambia
Léa Lacan
15.Rethinking Community Based Natural Resource Management in Western Botswana
Robert K. Hitchcock and Melinda C. Kelly
16.Assessing the Prospects of Community Participation in Makao Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania
Emmanuel Lwankomezi and Michael Bollig
17.Fisheries Co-Management: What and Whose Agenda is it Anyway?
Mafaniso Hara
Epilogue
Paul Hebinck (+), Michael Bollig, Richard Kiaka, Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, Eberhard Rothfuß and Cyrus Samimi
Part I. Conceptions
1.Community-Based Conservation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Political Ecology and Multispecies Perspectives on Co-Existence in Challenged Rural Landscapesation
Michael Bollig
2.What Is CBNRM and Has It Been Tried? Past, Present and Future in Africa?
Brian Child, Aaron King, Alex Chidakel and Tierney Shimansky
3.Embedding Environmental and Social Safeguards in Namibia's Community Conservation
Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Lendelvo and Alfons Mosimane
4.Reflections on the Process of Modernization and Its Paradoxes in CBNRM: The Case of Nyae Nyae-Conservancy and Community Forest in Otiozondiupa Region (Namibia)
Özge Dolunay and Eberhard Rotfuß
5.Community-Based Management of Forest Resources in Southern Africa
Paxie W. Chirwa, Trinitas Senganimalunje, Ratsodo P. Tshidzumba and Amani J. Uisso
Part II. Vulnerabilities and Resilience
6."Hanging by a thread": An Analysis of Vulnerabilities Facing Maasai Group Conservancies in Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya
Richard Dimba Kiaka, Joy Oakes and Jennifer Wanyingi
7.Towards Resilient Social-Ecological Systems: Covid-19's Impact on Community Conservancies in Namibia's Zambezi Region
Lars Lüder, Sakeus Kadhikwa, Stéphanie Domptail and Linus Kalvelage
8.From State Control to Participatory Approaches: Forest Management Experiences in Kenya
J. K. Musyoki, M.L.F. Ming'ate and M.T.E. Mbuvi
9.Contributions of Community-Based Natural Management Towards Climate-Change Adaptation and Mitigation in a Semi-Arid Savannah: Insights from Botswana and Zimbabwe
Olga Laiza Kupika, Victor K. Muposhi, Ruth Chinomona, Hebert Pikela and Gladman Chibememe
Part III. Benefit Sharing and Costs
10.Problematising the Concept of 'Benefits' in CBNRM
Gladman Thondhlana
11.Trophy Hunting in Namibian Community Conservancies
Nicoli Nattrass
12.The Community-Based Water Management Paradigm and Its Implications Within Two Pastoral Contexts in Namibia
Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
13.Financial Devolution in Community-Based Conservation: Comparative Insights from the Member States of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) in Southern Africa
Fabio Schleicher
Part IV. Politics, Power and Participation
14.The Promise of Community-Based Rewilding: Innovation, Hopes and Uncertainties in Simalaha, Southwestern Zambia
Léa Lacan
15.Rethinking Community Based Natural Resource Management in Western Botswana
Robert K. Hitchcock and Melinda C. Kelly
16.Assessing the Prospects of Community Participation in Makao Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania
Emmanuel Lwankomezi and Michael Bollig
17.Fisheries Co-Management: What and Whose Agenda is it Anyway?
Mafaniso Hara
Epilogue