Although it has been established that there is a strong geographical component to conflicts,
previous studies on Protected Area (PA) conflicts have tended to focus on assessing the …

Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been
increasingly connecting the commons and social movements empirically, giving shape to a …

Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to
become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a …

This article shows how wildlife and marine conservation in Tanzania lead to forms of
'green'or 'blue grabbing'. Dispossession of local people's land and resources has been …

Abstract In East Africa, financially strained governments increasingly experiment with
voluntary, market-based carbon offset schemes for enhancing the public management of …

This paper explores the potential for an environmental justice framing to shed new light on
conservation controversies. We argue that, in order to make such progress, environmental …

Rewilding is a conservation approach which seeks to restore natural processes and
ecosystem functionality. However, it also has a strong social dimension, characterised by a …

Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a
disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased …

Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other
African countries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand …

The idea that the support of local people is essential for the success of protected areas is
widespread in conservation, underpinning various conservation paradigms and policies, yet …