'African Potentials' for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management, livre ebook

This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book demonstrates, based on fieldwork concerning various natural resources (e.g. wildlife, forests, fruit, fish and land) as well as many famous protected areas, that African people are collectively and actively trying to solve the environmental problems they are facing by strategically utilising both indigenous means and new extrinsic opportunities. Meanwhile, it also becomes clear that wildlife conservation still continues to cause local societies a multitude of problems, and the 'potentials' of local people and societies are existing but unnoticed and suppressed by powerful outsiders, and therefore, remaining informal and invisible.

Part I. 'African Potentials' at the Forefront of Wildlife Conservation 

Part II. Re-Examination of 'African Potentials' in the Context of Human-Environment Interactions 

Conclusion - Reality of 'African Potentials': Informal, Invisible and Dynamic Nature without an Arena