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Reshaping Conservation: The Social Dynamics of Participatory Monitoring in Tanzania's Community-Managed Forests

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dc.contributor.author Funder, Mikkel
dc.contributor.author Danielsen, Finn
dc.contributor.author Ngaga, Yonika
dc.contributor.author Nielsen, Martin R.
dc.contributor.author Poulsen, Michael K.
dc.date.accessioned 2014-01-22T21:24:10Z
dc.date.available 2014-01-22T21:24:10Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9175
dc.description.abstract "Drawing on a study of community-managed forest reserves in southern Tanzania, this article discusses how community members engage and shape inclusive protected area management practices to produce outcomes that were not intended by external implementers. The article shows how a participatory natural resource monitoring scheme operating in the area becomes part of the villagers' collective and individual efforts to assert their claims to territory and resources vis-a-vis the state, other communities, and other community members. By altering the monitoring procedures in subtle ways, community members strengthen the monitoring practices to their advantage, and to some extent move them beyond the reach of government agencies and conservation and development practitioners. This has led to outcomes that are of greater social and strategic value to communities than the original 'planned' benefits, although the monitoring scheme has also to some extent become dominated by local 'conservation elites' who negotiate the terrain between the state and other community members. Our findings suggest that we need to move beyond simplistic assumptions of community strategies and incentives in participatory conservation and allow for more adaptive and politically explicit governance spaces in protected area management." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject participation en_US
dc.subject incentives en_US
dc.subject forest management en_US
dc.subject protected areas en_US
dc.subject monitoring and sanctioning en_US
dc.title Reshaping Conservation: The Social Dynamics of Participatory Monitoring in Tanzania's Community-Managed Forests en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Tanzania en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Conservation & Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 11 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 218-232 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US


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