Beasts on Fields

ISBN-13: 9783639178395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Tino Johansson

Opis

Human-wildlife conflicts are today an integral partof the rural development discourse. These conflictsoften occur when a wild animal crosses a perceivedborderline between nature and culture, between thedomesticated and the wild, and enters into the realmsof the other. This borderline marks a perceiveddivision of spatial content in our senses of place.Contemporary wildlife conservation faces seriouschallenges in trying to form a balance between humanneeds and survival of endangered wild animal species,as it is increasingly taking place in heavilyhuman-affected ecosystems. This book studies thespatial dimensions of human-wildlife conflicts inborderland communities in the Liwale district,Tanzania, where humans and free roaming wild animalsshare space. The author investigates the inclusionand exclusion of certain wild animal species fromparticular types of spaces and explains the causes ofhuman-wildlife conflicts through locally perceivednature-culture borderlands. Wild animals whichintrude into domesticated spaces become subjects outof space and challenge the total control of humansover natural elements in these spaces.

O autorze

Dr. Tino Johansson received his Ph.D. from the University of
Helsinki, Finland. He has specialized in community-based natural
resource management, wildlife conservation, development geography
and educational use of Geographical Information Systems.