Contested Sustainability

Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School. His books include Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Market Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa (2002), and co-editing The Green Economy in the Global South (2017). Christine Noe is an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is a contributor to David Potts (ed), Tanzanian Development (James Currey, 2019). Her research is on conservation and development politics. Dan Brockington is a Research Professor at ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is author of Fortress Conservation (James Currey, 2002), and, with Stefano Ponte, co-edited The Green Economy in the Global South (2017). His research covers the social impacts of conservation and long term livelihood change in East Africa. Caleb Gallemore holds a Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University and is an assistant professor in the International Affairs Program at Lafayette College in the United States. His research interests include land-use telecoupling, world cities, environmental policy networks, and social theory. Kelvin Joseph Kamnde holds an MSc degree in Geo-information science and earth observation from ITC university of Twente Netherlands. He is currently enrolled in the PhD programme at the University of Dar es Salaam, where is he also an Assistant Lecturer. Kelvin has broad experience in applying GIS and RS in planning, monitoring and assessment of natural resources, service provision, climate observations, hazard, risk assessment and prediction. He is an expert in spatial tracking, spatial modellings for resources state assessment and predictions, and in the creation of spatial databases and web databases. Lasse Folke Henriksen is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School where he teaches economic sociology, international political economy and new fancy research methods. As a trained sociologist he has mainly worked on the role of experts and professions in new and hybrid forms of transnational economic and environmental governance but he is also more broadly interested in how the global economy is governed. Mette Fog Olwig is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. Her research centres on the social and political dimensions of climate change, natural disasters, sustainability, natural resource management and the development sector. Opportuna Kweka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam. She teaches economic and population geography, migration and environmental studies. Dr Kweka works on natural resource governance, energy, extractive industries, and the role of the state and local communities in decision-making. Rasul A. Minja is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar es Salaam. His main research interests include regional integration, regional security, governance and legitimacy issues related to natural resource extraction and management, extractive industry and human rights observance, and election management. He has published work on regional integration, community policing, election management, regional security, civil-military relations, local government elections and participatory democracy. Robert Eliakim Katikiro is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business of the University of Dar es Salaam. His current research interests include fisheries governance, blue economy process, marine conservation, valuation of marine ecosystem services, small-scale fisheries, sustainable food systems, marine litter, marine social science research, fishing rights, fishing activities led by women, maritime sector workers and social science theory based on coastal and marine empiricism. Pilly Silvano is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, where she has just completed her PhD. Her areas of interest are gender, community-based natural resource governance, conservation and sustainable forest management. Ruth Wairimu John is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Geography, the Open University of Tanzania. She holds a Master of Arts in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of Dar es Salaam, where she is also currently completing her PhD. She teaches Introduction to Population Studies and Natural Resources Management. She is interested in sustainability of natural resources and community participation in natural resources management.

A successful attempt to explore the power dynamics regulating multistakeholder partnerships for resource utilization. It makes one understand how capital agents take advantage of the fact that African governments do not have adequate resources to unlock the value trapped in their abundant natural resources.

• PART I: ISSUES, BACKGROUND, AND METHODS1 New partnerships for sustainabilityStefano Ponte, Christine Noe, and Dan Brockington2 Conservation and development in Tanzania: Background, history, and recent developmentsChristine Noe, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Opportuna Kweka, Ruth Warimu John, Pilly Silvano, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Rasul Ahmed Minja, Mette Fog Olwig, Dan Brockington, and Stefano Ponte 3 Design and MethodologyStefano Ponte, Christine Noe, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Opportuna Kweka, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Mette Fog Olwig, Dan Brockington, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Ruth Warimu John, Pilly Silvano, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Rasul Ahmed Minja, and Caleb Gallemore PART II: SECTORAL ANALYSIS 4 Sustainability partnerships in the wildlife sector in southeast TanzaniaChristine Noe, RuthWarimu John, and Dan Brockington 5 Sustainability partnerships in the forestry sector in southeast TanzaniaAsubisye Mwamfupe, Mette Fog Olwig, Pilly Silvano, Dan Brockington, and Lasse Folke Henriksen 6 Sustainability partnerships in the coastal resources sector in southeast TanzaniaOpportuna Kweka, RobertEliakim Katikiro, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Rasul Ahmed Minja, and Stefano Ponte PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 7 The legitimacy of sustainability partnerships in southeast TanzaniaRasul Ahmed Minja, Stefano Ponte, Asubisye Mwamfupe, and Christine Noe8 The governance complexity of sustainability partnerships in southeast Tanzania: Institutional and network componentsLasse Folke Henriksen, Caleb Gallemore, Ruth Warimu John, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, and Pilly Silvano 9 The environmental impacts of sustainability partnerships in southeast TanzaniaCaleb Gallemore, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Lasse Henriksen, and Dan Brockington10 The livelihood impacts of sustainability partnerships in southeast TanzaniaCaleb Gallemore, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Lasse Folke Henriksen, and Dan Brockington11 Contested sustainabilityDan Brockington, Christine Noe, and Stefano Ponte