Enhanced Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management under Accelerated Climate Change: a large landscape social-ecological systems approach - Subproject Power relations and social metabolism of conservancies and cooperatives - Research portal of Justus Liebig University Giessen:

Joint project

ELNAC SASSCAL Cal 2.0 TP B - Enhanced Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management under Accelerated Climate Change: a large landscape social-ecological systems approach - Subproject Power relations and social metabolism of conservancies and cooperatives

Funder: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, former: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Period: 2022-2025

URI: https://sasscal.org/

Abstract:
ELNAC addresses the vivid and on-going human-wildlife conflict in the KaZa Transfrontier Conservation Area. It assumes the conflict to be caused by the current conservation paradigm, which stigmatizes local communities (LCs) as degrading agents and excludes them from managing the natural resources around them. Not only livelihoods but also conservation outcomes are jeopardized through this process. ELNAC proposes that conservation, development and food security can be synergetic goals if managed under another, agroecological paradigm. It proposes to integrate landscape analysis with the functional resource heterogeneity and Social-Ecological Systems frameworks to improve the governance of conservation areas and increase the self-determination of LCs in the conservation and food security objectives.

Coordinating organisation / Consortium Leader

University of Giessen

Cooperation partners with funding

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Association for the Conservation of the Environment and Integrated Rural Development
Copperbelt University
Integrated Rural Development And Nature Conservation
Namibia University of Science and Technology, former Polytechnic of Namibia
University of Botswana