Staying Maasai? Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Homewood, Katherine (Editor), Kristjanson, Patti (Editor), Trench, Pippa Chenevix (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 5
• Subjects: Environment.; Landscape ecology.; Nature conservation.; Anthropology.; Demography.; Nature Conservation.; Landscape Ecology.

People, livestock and wildlife have lived together on the savannas of East Africa for millennia. Their coexistence has declined as conservation policies increasingly exclude people and livestock from national wildlife parks, and fast-growing human populations and development push wildlife and pastor...

Table of Contents:

• Family Portraits – Mara
• Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand
• Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods
• Maasai Mara – Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?
• Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela
• Family Portraits – Amboseli
• Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya
• Family Portraits – Longido
• Still “People of Cattle”? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District
• Family Portraits – Tarangire
• Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania
• Community-Based Conservation and Maasai Livelihoods in Tanzania
• Policy and Practice in Kenya Rangelands: Impacts on Livelihoods and Wildlife
• Staying Maasai? Pastoral Livelihoods, Diversification and the Role of Wildlife in Development.