Rangarajan, Mahesh and Shahabuddin, Ghazala (2008) Displacement and relocation from protected areas: Towards a biological and historical synthesis. Current Conservation (2.3). pp. 6-7.
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THE ISSUE OF DISPLACEMENT AND REHABILITATION of people from wildlife areas is a recurrent and central theme in the context of crises in nature conservation in India. Few are aware of the older antecedents of widespread dislocation of resident peoples during the founding of National Parks in the USA or the establishment of India’s Reserved Forests, though both date back to the late nineteenth century (see Schama 1995; Rangarajan 2001a; Jacoby 2001). The displacement of people who herded, gathered forest products or cultivated land was a central feature of twentieth century nature conservation in southern and eastern Africa and India, though the drama played out at different times and in different ways (Carruthers 1995; Neumann 1998; Rangarajan in press, b). Displacement, carried out to enhance levels of nature protection, has often been accompanied by impoverishment and dispossession of the displaced. In fact, few would argue with the contention that the sequestering of land for preservation has more often than not, occurred at the expense of local inhabitants, especially those who were displaced (Brockington 2002).
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Protected Areas, Conservation, India, Displacement, Forests, Biodiversity, Indigenous Communities |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Users 4 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2022 04:19 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2022 04:19 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14216 |
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