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Title Staying Maasai? : livelihoods, conservation, and development in East African rangelands / Katherine Homewood, Patti Kristjanson, Pippa Trench, editors
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Studies in human ecology and adaptation
Studies in human ecology and adaptation.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Maasai (African people) -- Economic conditions
Savanna ecology -- Kenya
Savanna ecology -- Tanzania
Sustainable development -- Kenya
Sustainable development -- Tanzania
Nature conservation -- Kenya
Nature conservation -- Tanzania
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
Savanna ecology -- Kenya.
Savanna ecology -- Tanzania.
Sustainable development -- Kenya.
Sustainable development -- Tanzania.
Nature conservation -- Kenya.
Nature conservation -- Tanzania.
Maasai (African people) -- Economic conditions.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Maasai (African people) -- Economic conditions
Nature conservation
Savanna ecology
Sustainable development
Kenya
Tanzania
Form Electronic book
Author Homewood, Katherine.
Kristjanson, Patricia.
Trench, Pippa.
ISBN 9780387874920
0387874925
9780387874913
0387874917