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| Levine, A.. |
| While Tanzania’s system of designating terrestrial parks and protected areas has been historically exclusionary, recent conservation initiatives are acknowledging the need to involve local people in these programs and to provide benefits to resource-dependent communities. New policies for protecting marine resources are also following this approach. Government agencies, in collaboration with external institutions, are now experimenting with systems of community-based marine resource management through the establishment of non-exclusionary Marine Protected Areas, involving local user groups in both management and benefit regimes. The fugitive nature of marine resources, together with diffuse user groups that cannot be defined as traditional “communities,”... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Marine resources; Resource management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/732 |
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| Levine, A.. |
| While terrestrial parks and reserves have existed in Tanzania since colonial times, marine protected areas are a much newer endeavor in natural resource conservation. As the importance of marine conservation came to the international forefront in the 1990s, Tanzania experienced a rapid establishment and expansion of marine parks and protected areas. These efforts were indeed crucial to protecting the country’s marine resource base, but they also had significant implications for the lives and fishing patterns of local artisanal fishermen. Terrestrial protected areas in Tanzania have historically been riddled with conflict and local contestation, bringing about numerous debates on the best ways to involve rural residents in conservation planning efforts to... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Nature conservation; Marine parks. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/742 |
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