ABSTRACT

The Namibian government is currently addressing the twin goals of environment protection and rural economic development by means of an innovative policy of community-based natural resource management. This policy, implemented by a legislative amendment in 1996, is helping to reviv e a previously decimated environment. At the same time, the policy is empowering local people by strengthening social capital, creating jobs and other entrepreneurial opportunities, and improving local governance structures. The core of this policy change involves a devolution of property rights to indigenously managed conservancies. Conservancies are provided with legal rights to manage the wildlife ...

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