Community conservation in Africa is a fast growing area of policy, practice, and theory. To date, little has been published on community conservation issues, and as such, this edited collection represents one of the first books to present hard data and objecive evaluations of community conservation initiatives. The collection offers analyses of key concepts in community conservation programs, concepts such as the meanings of conservation, of community, of participation, of land tenure and control.Contributors to the volume display a broad range of academic disciplines and interests: from conservation biology to economic analysis, to academics to scholar-activists to those actively involoved in the administration of major conservation organization. The book assesses changes in conservation/natural resource management processes and institutions, and suggests directions for future research and policies. The book will be of interest to policy makers working on community conservation issues as well as to students of ecology and development.