Communities And Conservation ─ Histories And Politics Of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

Brosius (anthropology, U. of Georgia) et al. assemble a book of 17 essays on the management of resources by communities, stemming from a conference in June of 1997. Supporting the idea that communities would serve better as managers of the land than companies, an international group of contributors present analyses and case studies, often in dialogue with each other. The first part illustrates models of community-based natural resource management in studies of Zimbabwe's program CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources), Mozambique, Africa, The Gambia, the Machiguenga people of the Peruvian Amazon, and Indonesia, along with a discussion of organizations and democracy. Part two covers maps and the law in specific case studies of Guyana, the Ye'kuana of Venezuela, the Moluccas in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia, with a chapter on maps and power. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J. Peter Brosius is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Charles Zerner is the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and co-director of the Environmental Studies/Science, Technology and Society Colloquium Series.