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Local communities and the new environmental planning: a case study from Zanzibar
Author(s) -
Myers Garth Andrew
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00067
Subject(s) - tanzania , democratization , politics , political ecology , settlement (finance) , context (archaeology) , environmental planning , political science , scale (ratio) , environmental resource management , sociology , geography , democracy , business , economics , cartography , archaeology , finance , law , payment
Sub–Saharan Africa is experiencing a new round of conservation initiatives, based around democratized local institutions and local knowledge of the environment. This essay uses political ecology research from a case study settlement in the Zanzibar islands of Tanzania to interrogate how to create the enabling conditions for these new conservation programmes. The case study highlights the importance of understanding social and political issues at the local scale for appreciating the problematic trajectories of progressive environmental planning strategies in Africa in the context of democratization.