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MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN AFRICA

EMMANUEL K. BOON

LUC HENS

and GONZALO OVIEDO

2012 •  Pages: 352 • Size: 180x240 •  ISBN 81-85264-43-0 • Binding: Hard • Price: US $ 60/- Rs. 1950/-

(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 16)

 

The book analyzes the state and management of national parks in Africa. It discusses the state of ecosystems of national parks in the continent and assesses the capacity of environmental leadership and management to positively impact on biodiversity conservation in national parks. The book also examines the economic, social, and environmental performance of national parks in Africa and the role of stakeholders in the realization of the anticipated benefits of national parks in Africa. A number of key challenges facing the sustainability of national parks in the continent are identified and strategies for redressing them provided.

The contributors to the book are from the various sub-regions of Africa - Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa. However, to provide ample opportunity to compare the African situation to experiences in the other regions of the world, papers from Asia and Latin America are included.

The book contains 24 chapters organized in three parts. The introduction of the book and the key issues are presented in Part 1 while Part 2 concentrates on African sub-regional case studies. Part 3 discusses two case studies form Brazil and Vietnam. The chapters of the book emanate from papers presented at an international conference on the management of national parks and biodiversity conservation at the University of Ghana in April 2007 organized by the three Belgian Universities (Human Ecology Department of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Gent, and Catholiek Universiteit Leuven) and two Ghanaian partners, University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) and International Centre for Enterprise and Sustainable Development (ICED).

 

CONTENTS

 

Foreward • Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe

 

Preface and Acknowledgements • Emmanuel K. Boon, Luc Hens and Gonzalo Oviedo

 

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND KEY ISSUES

 

Luc Hens and Emmanuel K. Boon • Introduction: Changing Views on the Management of Protected Areas

 

Asamoah Boateng • National Environmental Policies:  How Neglected are National Parks?

 

Emmanuel K. Boon and Dorcas Mbuvi • Environmental Leadership and Management of National Parks: Theory versus Reality

 

Luc Hens and Jean Hugι • National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation as Instruments for Poverty Reduction

 

Davis W. Barasa • Conservation and Management of Wildlife in National Parks: From Biological Conservation to Community Participation in East Africa

 

Charles Takoyoh Eyong, Emmanuel K. Boon and Albert Ahenkan • Of What Value are National Parks? A Case of How Optimization Could Reduce the Current Bedlam in the Korup National Park, Cameroon

 

Makame Kitwana and Emmanuel K. Boon • Can Benefit Sharing Sustain Paricipatory Natural Resources Management? The Case of Kiwengwa-Pongwe Forest Reserve in Zanzibar

 

Theo van der Sluis • Illegal Settlements and Land Degradation in Kalakpa Resource Reserve (Ghana): What are the Solutions?

 

Kwaku Boakye • Eco-tourism, National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation

 

Kwame A. Domfeh  and Justice Nyigmah Bawole • The Role of Major Groups in the Management of National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation

 

Patience Agyare-Kwabi • Communication and Outreach Programme for Biodiversity Conservation in Forest Reserves and National Parks

 

Emanuela Casti • Participatory Mapping and Environmental Conservation in Western Africa: The SIGAP Strategy

 

Jacob W. Tumbulto • Water Resources and the Management of National Parks

 

Paul Ouedraogo and Yakubu Issaka Balma • Bush Fires and the Management of National Parks: Burkina Faso

 

Robert Bamfo • Implications of the Kyoto Protocol for the Management of National Parks

 

Patrick Van Damme • From African Ethnobotanical Biodiversity to Domestication of  New Crops for Development

 

PART TWO: AFRICAN SUB-REGIONAL CASE STUDIES

 

Charles Takoyoh Eyong and Solvay Gerke • Management of National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: Experience from South West Cameroon

 

Albert Ahenkan and Emmanuel Boon • Forest Reserves and Biodiversity Conservation in Ghana

 

J. Kipn’getich, E.M. Kanga, R.O. Odongo and D. M. Kyale • Management of National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: East African Sub-regional Experiences

 

Ndangwa Noyoo • Biodiversity and Eco-Tourism in Southern Africa: Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction

 

Lebogang Seitshiro • The Potential for Community Based Natural Resources Management in the Conservation of Nature and the Development of Sustainable Livelihoods: The Case of Botswana

 

PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES

 

Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires • Biodiversity Conservation: Experiences from Brazil

 

Vu Van Hieu, Emmanuel K. Boon and Le Xuan Quynh • Participation of Local Communities in Management of Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam - Case Study in Cat Ba National Park

 

Emmanuel Boon and Amie Fletcher • Conclusion

 

Index

 

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