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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Using the African savannas as an example, Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use shows that in many instances sustainable wildlife utilization comprises an even better form of land use than livestock keeping. Even when population pressure is high, as in agricultural areas or in humid zones, and wild animal species can pose a serious cost to agriculture, these costs are mainly caused by small species with a low potential for safari hunting.
Although ranching has a very low rate of return and is hardly ever profitable, the biggest obstacle to the model of sustainable wildlife use outlined in Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use is from unfair competition from the agricultural sector, such as subsidies and lack of taxation, resulting in market distortion for wildlife utilization. This book thus gives valuable evidence for a different way of working, providing arguments for removing such distortions and thereby facilitating financially sound land use and making it a rationally sound choice to conserve wildlife outside protected areas.
The expert team of authors, most of whom came together at a workshop to thrash out the ideas that were then developed into the various chapters, has written a superb account of recent research on this complex subject, resulting in a book that is a major contribution to our understanding of sustainable use of land. The important conclusion is that wildlife conservation can be possible for landholders and local communities if they have a financial interest in protecting wildlife on their lands.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use
Editors: Herbert H. T. Prins, Jan Geu Grootenhuis, Thomas T. Dolan
Series Title: Conservation Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4012-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-79730-9Published: 31 August 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5773-8Published: 09 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4012-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 496
Topics: Nature Conservation, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Economic Geology