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The social and environmental impacts of wilderness and development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2004

Dan Brockington  and
Kai Schmidt-Soltau
Dan Brockington
Affiliation:
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK
Kai Schmidt-Soltau
Affiliation:
P.O. Box 7414, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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Sanderson & Redford's (2003) correct insistence that poverty alleviation programmes ought more actively to include conservation would be well matched by an awareness of the impacts of some conservation policies, particularly the establishment of strictly protected areas, on local livelihoods. Lands protected as wilderness require the removal or exclusion of people and are locally costly. Wilderness protection requires, we argue, far more awareness of the nature and extent of these costs wherever conservation interests have to be served by people's absence.

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Oryx , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 140 - 142
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© 2004 Fauna & Flora International