Partnerships for Protected Area Conservation in Rwanda

Rutagarama, Eugene and Martin, Adrian (2006) Partnerships for Protected Area Conservation in Rwanda. The Geographical Journal, 172 (4). pp. 291-305. ISSN 0016-7398

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Abstract

This paper seeks to contribute to Rwanda's ongoing restructuring of protected area management. The early part of the paper draws on experiences elsewhere in Africa, as well as key contexts in Rwanda, to assert that conservation of national parks may best be served by flexible and inclusive partnerships that seek to integrate conservation activities across different agents and scales. This assertion is then explored more critically through empirical research that investigates the views of potential conservation partners. The findings suggest that attempts to develop partnerships that are built around national parks will face difficulties. Whilst there is a general willingness to be further involved in park management, this is complicated by cleavages in beliefs about how wider participation might be implemented. In particular, it is only international conservation NGOs that currently seem to be comfortable with the national park approach to conservation management: only they see themselves as having the expertise to be decision-making partners and only they would want their role in a partnership to be formalized.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2006
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 04:03
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16439
DOI:	10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00217.x

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