SFS3023: Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values

This course explores the social, cultural, economic, and political context of the relationship between people and wildlife. The theoretical underpinnings draw on principles from human ecology, ecological anthropology, micro-and macroeconomics, development theory, philosophy, and law. To understand present and future wildlife management in Kenya and Tanzania, this course examines influences of traditional attitudes, national land tenure regimes and policy framework, international influences, economic conditions, natural resource potentials and constraints, and regulation on human-wildlife interactions. Wildlife conservation in Tanzania (specifically in the Tarangire/Manyara Ecosystem) is examined in context of other competing land use alternatives in which its potential economic contribution to enhancing rural livelihoods is weighed against its constraints (e.g., depressed livelihoods associated with human-wildlife conflicts).

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