Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana

• Published in: Ecology and society Vol. 28; no. 4; p. 12
• Main Authors: Cassidy, Lin, Pricope, Narcisa, Stevens, Forrest, Salerno, Jonathan, Parry, David, Murray-Hudson, Michael, Hartter, Joel, Gaughan, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa Resilience Alliance 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Benefits; Community; Community support; community-based conservation; Conservation; Cost of living; Costs; Economic development; governance; Households; human well-being; Natural resource management; Natural resources; Qualitative analysis; Resource management; rural livelihoods; scale mismatch; Socioeconomic factors; Tourism; Wildlife; Wildlife conservation; Botswana; Africa

Over the past three decades community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) has sought to address the concurrent needs of economic development and ecological protection at the local level, but there is often strong divergence between development and conservation interests and successes. In part...