Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work

Thomas O. McShane is senior conservation advisor to WWF International. He is coauthor of The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion. Michael P. Wells is an independent conservation consultant and has published more than thirty articles and books on the environment and sustainable development, including People and Parks: Linking Protected Areas and Local Communities.

People engaged in conservation and development projects will find this book important. -- Hans Hurni Basic and Applied Ecology Anyone interested in the future of global biodiversity conservation should get a copy and make sure to pass it around. -- George Robinson Environmental Conservation

• Section I. The challenge of linking conservation and development 1. Trying to better understand integrated conservation and development, by Thomas O. McShane and Michael P. Wells 2. Jack of all trades, by master of none: inherent contradictions among ICD approaches, John G. Robinson a 3. The pathology of projects, by Jeffery Sayer and Michael P. Wells 4. Expecting the unattainable: the assumptions behind ICDPs, by Thomas O. McShane and Suad A. Newby Section II. Application and Issues 5. Fitting ICD into a project framework: the CARE experience, by Phil Franks and Thomas Blomley 6. Making biodiversity conservation a land-use priority, by Agnes Kiss 7. Yellowstone: a 130-year experiment in integrated conservation and development, by Dennis Glick and Curtis Freese 8. Policies, by parks and projects: a review of three Costa Rican ICDPs, Katrina Brandon and Mic 9. Indigenous peoples and protected areas: the case of the Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid, by Philippines, Edgardo Tongson and Marisel Dino 10. Land tenure and state property: a comparison of the Korup and Kilum ICDPs in Cameroon, by Steve Gartlan 11. Trade-off analysis for integrated conservation and development, by Katrina Brown 12. Transforming approaches to CBNRM: learning from the Luangwa experience in Zambia, by Brian Child and Barry Dalal-Clayton 13. Ecodevelopment in India, by Shekhar Singh and Arpan Sharma 14. Conservation landscapes: whose landscapes, by whose trade-offs?, Stewart Maginnis, Bill Jackson and Nigel Dudley 15. Poverty and forests: sustaining livelihoods in integrated conservation and development, by Gill Shepherd Section III. Conclusions 16. Using adaptive management to improve ICDPs, by Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis 17. The future of integrated conversation and development projects: building on what works, by Michael P. Wells, Thomas O. McShane, Holly T. Dublin, Sheila O'Connor and Kent