Are central Africa's protected areas displacing hundreds of thousands of rural poor?

Conservation and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-45

  Curran, Bryan ^a   Sunderland, Terry ^b   Maisels, Fiona ^a   Oates, John ^c,g   Asaha, Stella ^d   Balinga, Michael ^d   Defo, Louis ^e   Dunn, Andrew ^a   Telfer, Paul ^a   Usongo, Leonard ^e   Von Loebenstein, Karin ^f   Roth, Philipp ^f  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Forests Resources and People   (Cameroon)

^e Regional Office for Africa   (Cameroon)

^f Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^g OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Central Africa; Displacement; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849100576     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.54795     Document Type: Review

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