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While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This concise and accessible book will give students and practitioners a solid introduction to important methods from ethnography and interviews to surveys and community mapping, always attending to the imperatives of local control and community partnerships.

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• Photos, Figures, Maps, and Tables(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Conservation as Human Behavior(p. 15)
• 3 Social Elements of Conservation(p. 27)
• 4 Resource Management Systems(p. 40)
• 5 Economic Systems(p. 57)
• 6 Population and Social Systems(p. 77)
• 7 Belief and Knowledge Systems(p. 102)
• 8 Ethics, Targets, and Planning(p. 111)
• 9 Partnership(p. 125)
• 10 Organizing the Research(p. 143)
• 11 Regional Studies(p. 169)
• 12 Interviewing(p. 189)
• 13 Ethnographic Approaches(p. 207)
• 14 Surveys(p. 224)
• 15 Action Research(p. 235)
• 16 Learning and Communicating(p. 257)
• Resources(p. 277)
• References(p. 295)
• Index(p. 308)
• About the Authors(p. 321)

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CHOICE Review

Russell (anthropology, World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya) and behavioral scientist Harshbarger offer a unique book tailored to encouraging better social science research for community-based conservation projects. The authors bring to the book extensive academic backgrounds and direct experience with conservation efforts worldwide, particularly those related to their work with the Biodiversity Conservation Network. Each chapter is designed to cover issues that conservation projects are likely to encounter at all levels of planning, research, implementation, and evaluation. The book moves from general anthropological analysis placing conservation efforts in the context of a larger understanding of human behavior to different aspects of ecological and human systems that bear on conservation and resource management. The result is a unique book that provides "operational guidance" for improving community-based conservation projects; just what practitioners have long clamored for. Throughout the text, Russell and Harshbarger emphasize the need to conceptualize conservation strategies from the ground up, enfranchising local actors rather than employing top-down strategies of development. The authors do a tremendous job of making the literature on resource management, program design and evaluation, social research techniques, and regional studies accessible to field workers and students. An extensive resource list and references by category are included. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. C. M. Hand Valdosta State University

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Diane Russell's interests include community-based conservation, human ecology, economic anthropology, agrarian studies, research methods, and international development. Diane received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University in 1991 with a dissertation on the rice trade around Kisangani, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). From 1995-1998, she was senior program officer and social scientist for the Biodiversity Conservation Network, based in Manila and Fiji. Diane is currently team leader for Advancing Innovation and Impact at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya. In 2001, she was awarded a master's in Environmental Management from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She lives in Nairobi with her family
Camilla Harshbarger is an applied anthropologist who specializes in program design, evaluation, and organizational and community capacity building. She has consulted in international development throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and the United States, working with a wide range of institutions, including corporations, small businesses, community-based organizations, cooperatives, governments, local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and donors. Her work focuses on organizational effectiveness, democracy and governance, gender, household nutrition and food security, field methods for NGOs, and partnership and regional strategies for West and Southern Africa. Dr. Harshbarger received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1995 from the University of Florida. She has conducted research in Latin America, Africa, and the United States. Her work addresses diverse topics, including state legitimacy and dispute resolution of land conflicts in Cameroon