The conservation movement in Zimbabwe
19 February 2019
This paper describes how the Zimbabwe Natural Resources Act of 1941 nurtured a civic landholder-based conservation movement, the Intensive Conservation Area movement (ICA)... It provides a rare insight into the efficacy of environmental regulation that legally devolves use rights and regulatory responsibility to communities of landholders, and favours democratic processes above top-down regulation. The main message is that natural resource governance is effective when (a) landholders are genuinely empowered with the rights to use and manage natural resources provided, and (b) this occurs within a framework of devolved and collective self-regulation through structures built democratically from the bottom up.
Graham Child & Brian Child. (2015).The conservation movement in Zimbabwe: An early experiment in devolved community based regulation. African Journal of Wildlife Research 45(1): 1–16.
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