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Protected Areas: offering security to whom, when and where?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

ALICE B. KELLY  and
A. CLARE GUPTA
ALICE B. KELLY*
Affiliation:
Work carried out as graduate student researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2007–2013, USA
A. CLARE GUPTA
Affiliation:
Work carried out: as graduate student researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2006–2012, USA
*
*Correspondence: Alice B. Kelly, NSF SEES Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Berkeley e-mail: abk@berkeley.edu
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Summary

This study considers the issue of security in the context of protected areas in Cameroon and Botswana. Though the literature on issues of security and well-being in relation to protected areas is extensive, there has been less discussion of how and in what ways these impacts and relationships can change over time, vary with space and differ across spatial scales. Looking at two very different historical trajectories, this study considers the heterogeneity of the security landscapes created by Waza and Chobe protected areas over time and space. This study finds that conservation measures that various subsets of the local population once considered to be ‘bad’ (e.g. violent, exclusionary protected area creation) may be construed as ‘good’ at different historical moments and geographical areas. Similarly, complacency or resignation to the presence of a park can be reversed by changing environmental conditions. Changes in the ways security (material and otherwise) has fluctuated within these two protected areas has implications for the long-term management and funding strategies of newly created and already existing protected areas today. This study suggests that parks must be adaptively managed not only for changing ecological conditions, but also for shifts in a protected area's social, political and economic context.

Keywords

human securityprotected areawell-being
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Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 172 - 180
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2016 

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