§16§§Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands. This book, Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania, brings to the forefront research on significant issues and developments in conservation and management in national parks and protected lands in northern Tanzania. The book draws attention to issues at the intersection of conservation, tourism, and community livelihood, and several studies use geospatial technologies Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing data and techniques to study land use and land cover conversion. With contributions from professors at the Mweka College of African Wildlife Management located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro and other Tanzanian researchers, the book provides important perspectives of local experts and practitioners. Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania provides a significant contribution in research and technological advancement in the areas of wildlife conservation and protected §16§land management throughout this critical region.§ §04§Chapter 1: Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania: An Introduction.- SECTION I: Communities and Management Challenges.- Chapter 2: A Geography of Protected Areas.- Chapter 3: Conservation Governance in Northern Tanzania: Implications for Conservation and Community Livelihood.- Chapter 4: Wilderness Skills Offering to Students.- Chapter 5: Hunting in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter 6: Tourism Supply System.- Chapter 7: Response of Cavity Breeding Birds on Shortage of Deadwood Outside Protected Areas.- Chapter 8: Historical Change in Porter Work on Kilimanjaro.- SECTION II: Geospatial Technologies, Land Cover, and Conservation in Northern Tanzania.- Chapter 9: Land Cover Change in the Kwakuchinga Wildlife Corridor.- Chapter 10:Mkomazi National Park Vegetation Dynamics.- Chapter 11:Spatiotemporal Patterns of Giraffe Poaching Around Arusha National Park.- Chapter 12: Community Forestry in Northern Tanzania.- Chapter 13: Illegal Logging in Arusha National Park.- Chapter §04§14:Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania: The Way Forward. §13§§ This collection of essays comes from a collaboration between researchers ... and presents the orthodox view of conservation efforts that underlay the conflict presented by McCrummen in both the study and the practice of wildlife and landscape conservation in Tanzania in particular and in East Africa more generally. ... The essays are for the most part supremely technical and oriented to researchers in the field. (Gregory H. Maddox, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, December, 2024) §
