An interdisciplinary journal exploring linkages between society, environment and development
Users Online: 13
Conservation and Society is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of conservation.
Conservation and Society was recognised as having high impact in the recent Australian Research Council evaluations of scholarly publications. Conservation & Society has been included in Scopus.
(To view all articles of this issue, please Click
here)
Article
Seeing white elephants? The production and communication of information in a locally-based monitoring system in Tanzania
Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Jens Friis Lund
The literature on locally-based monitoring in the context of conservation displays a great deal of optimism about the prospects of involving local people in the systematic gathering of information abo...
False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda
David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paul Vedeld
Tourism and the sharing of the associated revenues with local people have been increasingly fronted as key instruments for maintaining protected areas (PAs) globally. This paper focuses on a tourism r...
Payments for ecosystem services as neoliberal conservation: (Reinterpreting) evidence from the Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa
Bram Büscher
Payments for ecosystem/environmental services (PES) interventions aim to subject ecosystem conservation to market dynamics and are often posited as win-win solutions to contemporary ecological, develo...
