Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the politics of natural resource governance in Africa / Fred Nelson -- Agrarian social change and post-colonial natural resou rce management interventions in Southern Africa's 'communal tenure' reg imes / James C. Murombedzi -- The politics of community-based natural r esource management in Botswana / Liz Rihoy and Brian Maguranyanga -- Pe asants' forests and the king's game? Institutional divergence and conve rgence in Tanzania's forestry and wildlife sectors / Fred Nelson and To m Blomley -- The evolution of Namibia's communal conservancies / Brian Jones -- Historic and contemporary struggles for a local wildlife gover nance regime in Kenya / Ngeta Kabiri -- Windows of opportunity or exclu sion? Local communities in the great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, South Africa / Webster Whande -- 'People are not happy': crisis, adaptation and resilience in Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme / Liz Rihoy , Chaka Chirozva and Somon Anstey -- The rise and fall of community-bas ed natural resource management in Zambia's Luangwa Valley: an illustrat ion of micro- and macro-governance issues / Rodgers Lubilo and Brian Ch ild -- External agency and local authority: facilitating CBNRM in Mahel , Mozambique / Marta Monjane -- Adaptive or anachronistic? Maintaining indigenous natural resource governance systems in northern Botswana / M asego Madzwamuse -- Pastoral activists: negotiating power imbalances in the Tanzanian Serengeti / Maanda Ngoitiko ... [et al.] -- A changing c limate for community resource governance: threats and opportunities fro m climate change and the emerging carbon market / Maxwell Gomera, Liz R ihoy and Fred Nelson -- Democratizing natural resource governance: sear ching for institutional change / Fred Nelson.

"Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodivers ity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, parti cularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arra ngements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of politi cal processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests n egotiate for access to and control over resources. These political proc esses determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, suc h as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities. This volume examines the poli tical dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa. These cas es include both local and national settings, and examine issues such as land rights, tourism development, wildlife conservation, participatory forest management, and the impacts of climate change, and are drawn fr om both academics and field practitioners working across the region."-- Publisher's description.