Scales Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-30908-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Conservation and Development

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse flora and fauna is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation and the island has been classified one of the world’s highest conservation priorities.

Drawing on insights from geography, anthropology, sustainable development, political science and ecology, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of conservation and environmental management in Madagascar. It describes how conservation organisations have been experimenting with new forms of protected areas, community-based resource management, ecotourism, and payments for ecosystem services. But the country must also deal with pressing human needs. The problems of poverty, development, environmental justice, natural resource use and biodiversity conservation are shown to be interlinked in complex ways. Authors address key questions, such as who are the winners and losers in attempts to conserve biodiversity? And what are the implications of new forms of conservation for rural livelihoods and environmental justice?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scales, Ivan R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Conservation at the Crossroads: Biological Diversity, Environmental Change and Natural Resource Use in Madagascar

Ivan R. Scales

Part 1: Madagascar’s Biological Diversity: From Deep Time to the Arrival of Humans

2. Explaining Madagascar’s Biodiversity

Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Lucienne Wilmé and Jean-Luc Mercier

3. Early Human Settlers and their Impact on Madagascar’s Landscapes

Robert E. Dewar

Part 2: Paradise Lost? The Myths, Narratives and Received Wisdoms at the Heart of Conservation Research and Policy

4. Deforestation in Madagascar: Debates over the Island’s Forest Cover and Challenges of Measuring Forest Change

William J. McConnell and Christian A. Kull

5. The Drivers of Deforestation and the Complexity of Land Use in Madagascar

Ivan R. Scales

Part 3: The Politics of Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Management

6. A Brief History of the State and the Politics of Natural Resource use in Madagascar

Ivan R. Scales

7. The Roots, Persistence, and Character of Madagascar’s Conservation Boom

Christian A. Kull

8. The Transfer of Natural Resource Management Rights to Local Communities

Jacques Pollini, Neal Hockley, Frank Muttenzer and Bruno Ramamonjisoa

9. Conservation Politics in Madagascar: The Expansion of Protected Areas

Catherine Corson

10. The Durban Vision in practice: Experiences in the Participatory Governance of Madagascar’s New Protected Areas

Malika Virah-Sawmy, Charlie J. Gardner and Nanie A. Ratsifandrihamanana

Part 4: Making Conservation Pay? Incentive-Based Conservation, the Commodification of Madagascar’s nature and Conflicting Views of Landscape and Nature

11. Tourism, Conservation and Development in Madagascar: Moving Beyond Panaceas?

Ivan R. Scales

12. Bioprospecting a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Political Economy of Natural Products Drug Discovery for Conservation Goals in Madagascar

Benjamin D. Neimark and Laura M. Tilghman

13. Incentivising Forest Conservation: Payments for Environmental Services and Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation

Laura Brimont and Cécile Bidaud

14. Contrasting Visions of Nature and Landscapes

Jeffrey C. Kaufmann

15. Conclusion: The Future of Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar: Lessons from the Past and Challenges Ahead

Ivan R. Scales

Über Autor(innen)

Ivan R. Scales is McGrath Lecturer in Human Geography, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.