9781048300901 - goodbye game ranger: a new land ethic for african wildlife conservation di musgrave, michael k. (9 risultati)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Goodbye Game Ranger is a provocative and hopeful call to rethink African wildlife conservation. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across the continent, Michael K. Musgrave argues that conservation cannot secure Africa's wildlife by holding on to imported ideas of wilderness, exclu…sion and dependence on foreign charity. It must become more African in its ethics, more honest about its history, more responsive to ecological complexity, and more capable of creating prosperity for the people who live with wildlife.The book challenges the "game ranger" mindset: not the many committed professionals who work in the field, but a powerful conservation orthodoxy shaped by colonial history, Western moral preferences and a belief that healthy landscapes are landscapes without people. Musgrave examines how protected areas were often created through dispossession, how rural land use has been misrepresented, and how global fascination with charismatic animals can obscure the rights, knowledge and daily risks of local communities.Rather than replacing conservation with development, Goodbye Game Ranger argues for a stronger form of conservation: one in which people, livestock, wildlife, culture and ecosystems are understood as interconnected. It revisits the "tragedy of the commons", drawing on the work of Elinor Ostrom to show that communities can govern shared resources when institutions, rights, incentives and accountability are well designed. It questions simplistic assumptions about education, population, customary law, policy and trade-offs, and calls for systems thinking in the management of Africa's dynamic, unpredictable ecosystems.Musgrave makes the economic case for change. African biodiversity is not merely a charitable cause or a tourist attraction; it is productive natural capital with potential to generate durable livelihoods, enterprise, investment and national prosperity. The book explores carbon and biodiversity finance, impact investing, community conservation, ecotourism, sustainable harvesting, bonds, public-private partnerships and debt-for-nature swaps. It insists, however, that finance must be governed ethically and must strengthen local rights, capability and accountability rather than create new forms of external control.At the heart of the book is the importance of community governance and traditional ecological knowledge. Conservation must move beyond treating people either as a threat to nature or as passive beneficiaries. Rural communities are rights-holders, managers and knowledge-holders whose institutions, experience and aspirations are essential to effective landscape stewardship. The book also examines human-wildlife conflict, the limits of simplistic "people versus animals" debates, and the need for a genuine community licence for conservation.Goodbye Game Ranger embraces technology, from remote sensing, sensors and wildlife tracking to drones, data platforms and artificial intelligence, but treats it as an enabler rather than a substitute for human judgement. Technology should strengthen fieldcraft, community science, transparency and adaptive management.Finally, the book sets out an African land ethic: a social-ecological ethic grounded in Africa's histories, values and living landscapes. It offers a vision of a continent in which conservation is not imposed from outside, but led by skilled African institutions and communities; where ecological integrity and human dignity reinforce one another; and where wildlife is conserved because it is valued, governed and capable of sustaining abundance. Goodbye Game Ranger is a challenge to the old conservation order, and an invitation to build a more just, confident and successful future for Africa's people and wild places. A bold call to remake African wild Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Goodbye Game Ranger is a provocative and hopeful call to rethink African wildlife conservation. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across the continent, Michael K. Musgrave argues that conservation cannot secure Africa's wildlife by holding on to imported ideas of wilderness, exclu…sion and dependence on foreign charity. It must become more African in its ethics, more honest about its history, more responsive to ecological complexity, and more capable of creating prosperity for the people who live with wildlife.The book challenges the "game ranger" mindset: not the many committed professionals who work in the field, but a powerful conservation orthodoxy shaped by colonial history, Western moral preferences and a belief that healthy landscapes are landscapes without people. Musgrave examines how protected areas were often created through dispossession, how rural land use has been misrepresented, and how global fascination with charismatic animals can obscure the rights, knowledge and daily risks of local communities.Rather than replacing conservation with development, Goodbye Game Ranger argues for a stronger form of conservation: one in which people, livestock, wildlife, culture and ecosystems are understood as interconnected. It revisits the "tragedy of the commons", drawing on the work of Elinor Ostrom to show that communities can govern shared resources when institutions, rights, incentives and accountability are well designed. It questions simplistic assumptions about education, population, customary law, policy and trade-offs, and calls for systems thinking in the management of Africa's dynamic, unpredictable ecosystems.Musgrave makes the economic case for change. African biodiversity is not merely a charitable cause or a tourist attraction; it is productive natural capital with potential to generate durable livelihoods, enterprise, investment and national prosperity. The book explores carbon and biodiversity finance, impact investing, community conservation, ecotourism, sustainable harvesting, bonds, public-private partnerships and debt-for-nature swaps. It insists, however, that finance must be governed ethically and must strengthen local rights, capability and accountability rather than create new forms of external control.At the heart of the book is the importance of community governance and traditional ecological knowledge. Conservation must move beyond treating people either as a threat to nature or as passive beneficiaries. Rural communities are rights-holders, managers and knowledge-holders whose institutions, experience and aspirations are essential to effective landscape stewardship. The book also examines human-wildlife conflict, the limits of simplistic "people versus animals" debates, and the need for a genuine community licence for conservation.Goodbye Game Ranger embraces technology, from remote sensing, sensors and wildlife tracking to drones, data platforms and artificial intelligence, but treats it as an enabler rather than a substitute for human judgement. Technology should strengthen fieldcraft, community science, transparency and adaptive management.Finally, the book sets out an African land ethic: a social-ecological ethic grounded in Africa's histories, values and living landscapes. It offers a vision of a continent in which conservation is not imposed from outside, but led by skilled African institutions and communities; where ecological integrity and human dignity reinforce one another; and where wildlife is conserved because it is valued, governed and capable of sustaining abundance. Goodbye Game Ranger is a challenge to the old conservation order, and an invitation to build a more just, confident and successful future for Africa's people and wild places. A bold call to remake Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Goodbye Game Ranger is a provocative and hopeful call to rethink African wildlife conservation. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across the continent, Michael K. Musgrave argues that conservation cannot secure Africa's wildlife by holding on to imported ideas of wilderness, exclu…sion and dependence on foreign charity. It must become more African in its ethics, more honest about its history, more responsive to ecological complexity, and more capable of creating prosperity for the people who live with wildlife.The book challenges the "game ranger" mindset: not the many committed professionals who work in the field, but a powerful conservation orthodoxy shaped by colonial history, Western moral preferences and a belief that healthy landscapes are landscapes without people. Musgrave examines how protected areas were often created through dispossession, how rural land use has been misrepresented, and how global fascination with charismatic animals can obscure the rights, knowledge and daily risks of local communities.Rather than replacing conservation with development, Goodbye Game Ranger argues for a stronger form of conservation: one in which people, livestock, wildlife, culture and ecosystems are understood as interconnected. It revisits the "tragedy of the commons", drawing on the work of Elinor Ostrom to show that communities can govern shared resources when institutions, rights, incentives and accountability are well designed. It questions simplistic assumptions about education, population, customary law, policy and trade-offs, and calls for systems thinking in the management of Africa's dynamic, unpredictable ecosystems.Musgrave makes the economic case for change. African biodiversity is not merely a charitable cause or a tourist attraction; it is productive natural capital with potential to generate durable livelihoods, enterprise, investment and national prosperity. The book explores carbon and biodiversity finance, impact investing, community conservation, ecotourism, sustainable harvesting, bonds, public-private partnerships and debt-for-nature swaps. It insists, however, that finance must be governed ethically and must strengthen local rights, capability and accountability rather than create new forms of external control.At the heart of the book is the importance of community governance and traditional ecological knowledge. Conservation must move beyond treating people either as a threat to nature or as passive beneficiaries. Rural communities are rights-holders, managers and knowledge-holders whose institutions, experience and aspirations are essential to effective landscape stewardship. The book also examines human-wildlife conflict, the limits of simplistic "people versus animals" debates, and the need for a genuine community licence for conservation.Goodbye Game Ranger embraces technology, from remote sensing, sensors and wildlife tracking to drones, data platforms and artificial intelligence, but treats it as an enabler rather than a substitute for human judgement. Technology should strengthen fieldcraft, community science, transparency and adaptive management.Finally, the book sets out an African land ethic: a social-ecological ethic grounded in Africa's histories, values and living landscapes. It offers a vision of a continent in which conservation is not imposed from outside, but led by skilled African institutions and communities; where ecological integrity and human dignity reinforce one another; and where wildlife is conserved because it is valued, governed and capable of sustaining abundance. Goodbye Game Ranger is a challenge to the old conservation order, and an invitation to build a more just, confident and successful future for Africa's people and wild places. A bold call to remake Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A bold call to remake African wildlife conservation through community rights, traditional ecological knowledge, ecological realism and nature-based enterprise, replacing exclusion and dependency with an African land ethic of shared prosperity.
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