Staying Maasai? : livelihoods, conservation, and development in East African rangelands /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Springer, c2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 418 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in human ecology and adaptation Studies in human ecology and adaptation.
Subject:	Maasai (African people) -- Economic conditions. Savanna ecology -- Kenya. Savanna ecology -- Tanzania. Sustainable development -- Kenya. Sustainable development -- Tanzania. Nature conservation -- Kenya. Nature conservation -- Tanzania. Maasai (African people) -- Economic conditions. Nature conservation. Savanna ecology. Sustainable development. Kenya. Tanzania.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11958255

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Other authors / contributors:	Homewood, Katherine. Kristjanson, Patricia. Trench, Pippa.
ISBN:	9780387874920 0387874925 9786612006197 6612006196 9780387874913 (Cloth) 0387874917 (Cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. This title focuses on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. It looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife.
Other form:	Print version: Staying Maasai?. New York, NY : Springer, c2009 9780387874913 0387874917

Table of Contents:

Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand; Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods; Maasai Mara
Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?; Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela; Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya; Still "People of Cattle"? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District; Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.

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