SCIENCE@home

Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Past, Present, Future

Julia P. G. Jones,S. Rakotonarivo,J. Razafimanahaka

Published year unknown in Unknown venue

ABSTRACT

To be published in the upcoming book The New Natural History of Madagascar, edited by S. M. Goodman, published by Princeton University Press. A French translation of the chapter "Conservation des forêts à Madagascar : Passé, Présent, et Futur" is included at the end of the preprint. At this critical time for the future of Madagascar’s biodiversity, we first review the past: touching upon conservation from pre- to post-colonial periods before focusing on the period which most dramatically shaped the country’s current conservation-related institutions and policies (1984-2009). Next the present: we examine evidence for the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the main approaches to forest conservation on the island. We look in detail at how conservation has conceptualized the link between environment and development in Madagascar, the impact of measures by conservationists to transform rural livelihoods, and the effectiveness of protected areas, community-based natural resources management, and the environmental impact assessment legislation. Finally, we look to the future and consider how pressures on Madagascar’s biodiversity, and the conservation community’s responses, are evolving and need to evolve. This is, of course, hugely ambitious. We are attempting to cover a significant chunk of history for a diverse mini-continent. We bring in literature from anthropology, political ecology, economics, and conservation science. We can only hope to do this incompletely.

PUBLICATION RECORD

CITATION MAP

EXTRACTION MAP

CLAIMS

  • No claims are published for this paper.

CONCEPTS

  • No concepts are published for this paper.

REFERENCES

Showing 1-100 of 120 references · Page 1 of 2

12
Next

CITED BY

Showing 1-6 of 6 citing papers · Page 1 of 1