Linking management and livelihood in environmental conservation: case of the Korup National Park Cameroon

Mbile, P.; Vabi, M.; Meboka, M.; Okon, David Tiku; Arrey-Mbo, J.; Nkongho, F.; Ebong, Esong Lionel

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.01.009

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“…Five villages (Erat, Bera, Esukutan, Ikenge, Bareka Batanga) reside within the park boundaries and depend completely on the resources in the park for their livelihood. Livelihood activities in the park include subsistence agriculture, fishing, hunting, cash cropping, and the harvesting of non-timber forest products [41,43,55,56]. Discussions on the creation of the Korup National Park started in the 1970s, when the rare Preuss' Red Colobus Monkey attracted conservationists Gartlan and T. Truthsaker to the Korup area [41].…”

Section: Evolution Of Parks In Cameroonmentioning

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“…Studies have shown that before the creation of the KNP, the people depended on hunting, fishing, subsistence agriculture, the harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and small scale cash cropping [41,45,56,67]. Since the designation of this area as a national park and the resettlement of the village of Ikondo-Kondo 1 in 2000 there have been several changes in the land use and livelihood systems of the villages that remained in the park.…”

Section: Consequences Of Conservation Policies In the Knpmentioning

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The Politics of Land Use in the Korup National Park

Siewe

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Caniglia

2017

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Abstract:Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using techniques in both PE and LCS, our results show that conservation policies, politics, and population are the primary drivers of environmental change in the KNP. We conclude by arguing that a deeper understanding can be garnered by combining LCS and PE approaches to analyze and contribute to the people and parks debate.

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Section: Evolution Of Parks In Cameroonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Consequences Of Conservation Policies In the Knpmentioning

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The Politics of Land Use in the Korup National Park

Siewe

Vadjunec

Caniglia

2017

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“…One darker aspect of this new cosmology is conservation of biodiversity leading to the evictions of several million people together with denial of access to their former lands (Agrawal and Redford 2009: 4;Ozinga 2003;Pearce 2005;Homewood et al 2009: 5;Patinkin 2013;Brockington and Igoe 2006: 431, 454). The literature regarding the management of PAs reflects a number of ongoing concerns, including the links between community management, livelihood, poverty alleviation and development (Agrawal and Gibson 1999;Bray 2007;de Koning et al 2011;McNab and Ramos 2007;Mbile et al 2005;Nielsen and Treue 2012;Nunan 2015). Further problems may be found across a vast spectrum of issues and practices.…”

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An Anthropology of Landscape

2017

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PrefaceThe research for this book took place from 2008 to 2012. It ran in tandem with an archaeological project involving a fieldwork survey of the entire heathlands, and excavations of multiple sites during the same time period directed by Chris Tilley. It is important to acknowledge this in terms of the discussion of this being a contested landscape. After moving to the area and having decided to visit all the prehistoric cairns, Chris went walking on the heathlands with Tor, his dog. These became walks with a purpose. After seeing all the cairns he decided to walk between them in order to study their relationship to each other and the unique Pebblebed landscape in which they are situated. He quickly became fascinated with the pebbles and how these bright and rounded objects transform what otherwise might appear, to the casual observer, to be a quite monotonous landscape. Realizing that this was unlikely to be just a contemporary appreciation, he then initiated the project. From an archaeologist's perspective he is trying to create a story of the past in the present: a story involving the topography; a story involving the pebbles, the land, the sea, the sky, the sun; and integrate these things into some kind of sense of how it might have been, all the time trying to link past and present. And so the anthropological project investigating the meaning and significance of the contemporary heathland and its pebbles arose. All the research was carried out by Chris and Kate Cameron-Daum. It was very much a collaborative exercise in which both of us were engaged in participant observation and interviews with over one hundred informants. Chris and his family were living in the research area and Kate was staying with them: this had definite advantages in that the field site was quite literally entered when leaving the front door of the house. This permitted sustained engagement with both the heathland landscape and those working there or visiting it throughout the years and in all weathers and seasons. This facilitated, we believe, something of an intimate 'insider's' (the punctuation marks to be emphasized) knowledge of the landscape and the establishment of ongoing personal contacts and relationships. During the course of the archaeological research and the An AnThropology of lAnDsCApe viii viii viii anthropological research discussed here the landscape has become a powerful element in the formation of our own biographies and identities. We both wanted to study anthropology as students because we were interested in the lives of others and how an understanding of them might lead us to reflect on our own lives and experiences. Although the two cannot be separated, we did not choose to study anthropology to learn about the anthropologists conducting the research, their lives, trials and tribulations in the field. We take it as axiomatic that it is from the ethnographic self that accounts arise, that self-reflexivity in research is fundamental and that all our findings are subjective (Clifford and Marcus 1986; Clifford 1...

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“…De igual manera, las restricciones sobre el acceso a la tierra han puesto en riesgo e incertidumbre los medios de vida locales (Bhandari y Grant, 2007), dos ejemplos son: (1) la creación de áreas protegidas provoca que residentes y vecinos pierdan sus hogares y recursos para sostener su forma de vida (Mbile et al, 2005;Bhandari y Grant, 2007;Lykke, 2000;Wells y McShane, 2004); y (2) el crecimiento de la población ejerce presión sobre las regiones poco desarrolladas (Nascimento y Tomaselli, 2005), característica intrínseca de los contextos rurales. Ante estas propuestas convencionales de conservación y desarrollo, el bienestar dista de convertirse en una realidad en las comunidades rurales.…”

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