Conservation and Development in Uganda

Abstract

Drawing on insights from political ecology, human geography, institutional economics and environmental science, the authors explore the challenges of operationalising truly sustainable forms of development in a country whose recent history is characterised by a highly volatile governance and development context. They highlight the stakes for vulnerable human populations in relation to large and growing socioeconomic inequalities, as well as for Uganda’s rich, unique and globally significant biodiversity. They illustrate the conflicts that occur between competing claims of conservation, agriculture, tourism and the energy and mining industries. Crucially, the book draws out lessons that can be learned from the Ugandan experience for conservation and development practitioners and scholars around the world.