The Political Economy of Conservation at Mount Elgon, Uganda: Between Local Deprivation, Regional Sustainability, and Global Public Goods

摘要: This paper presents a case study from Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda, examining and deepening an understanding of direct incomes costs conservation for local people close to protected areas. In the early 1990s, collaborative arrangements were introduced Park improve people-park relations enhance rural livelihoods after period violent evictions severe resource access restrictions. areas with such – including agreements, Taungya farming, beekeeping schemes we observe marginal increase in annual involved households. Other accrue tourism revenue sharing schemes, community revolving fund, payments carbon sequestration. However, these are economically (1.2% household income), unevenly distributed instrumentally used reward compliance park regulations. They do not necessarily those incurring due eviction exclusion, crop raiding, restrictions conflicts. By contrast, constitute at least 20.5 % total incomes, making it difficult see how conservation, poverty alleviation development can be locally reconciled if populations continue bear economic brunt conservation. We recommend shift policy towards donor state responsibility compensating on relevant scale. Such would important step more substantive rights-based model legitimacy area management context both extreme natural dependence.