Somerville | Humans and Lions | Buch | 978-1-138-55802-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Somerville

Humans and Lions

Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-55802-1
Verlag: Routledge

Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

ISBN: 978-1-138-55802-1
Verlag: Routledge


This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa. The killing of Cecil the Lion in July 2015 brought such issues to the public’s attention. Were lions threatened in the wild and what was the best form of conservation? How best can lions be saved from extinction in the wild in Africa amid rural poverty, precarious livelihoods for local communities and an expanding human population?

This book traces man’s relationship with lions through history, from hominids, to the Romans, through colonial occupation and independence, to the present day. It concludes with an examination of the current crisis of conservation and the conflict between Western animal welfare concepts and sustainable development, thrown into sharp focus by the killing of Cecil the lion. Through this historical account, Keith Somerville provides a coherent, evidence-based assessment of current human-lion relations, providing context to the present situation.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental and African history, wildlife conservation, environmental management and political ecology, as well as the general reader.

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Foreword by David W. Macdonald Introduction 1. Lion-human coexistence and competition from the Pleistocene to modern humans 2. Domestication, settlement and the effects on lions 3. Lions from the 14th century to colonial occupation 4. Hunting, conservation and the decline of the lion in colonial Africa and Asia 5. Contemporary coexistence and conflict in Africa 6. The ups and downs of Southern Africa’s lions, and the importance of the trophy hunting debate


Professor Keith Somerville is a Member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, UK, where he teaches at the Centre for Journalism. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, UK.



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