Abstract
Abuse of human rights in conservation initiatives, such as REDD+, wildlife conservation, etc., has raised concern in many project reviews. Few studies have, however, examined the human rights dimensions of conservation and climate change. In this chapter the authors address this gap by showing how outsiders, with the assistance of the state, attempted to control areas historically governed by local residents in the name of conservation and climate change policy initiatives in the Mafia Island and Rufiji Delta, Southern Tanzania. The interventions were implemented with the old-fashioned premise that the villagers were destructive and extravagant resource users. The authors also try to illustrate how the international linkages to worldwide conservation narratives and to development aid by rich countries promoting climate measures in poor countries to try to absolve their carbon emissions revealed the ways in which such vested interests attempted “to misuse their money, power, and influence.”.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Springer Climate |
Pages | 169-202 |
Number of pages | 34 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Springer Climate |
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ISSN (Print) | 2352-0698 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2352-0701 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Atmospheric Science
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law