The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare, Tanzania, 1961–88

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ID8977545
AuthorsMichael J Sheridan (0000-0002-2542-3347, University of Vermont, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume45
Issue1
Pages81-102
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853703008521
OpenAlexW2156777382
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This article draws on archival sources and oral histories to describe changing post-colonial land management in the North Pare Mountains of Tanzania. The independent state transformed colonial institutions but did not maintain colonial common property regimes for water source, irrigation and forest management. Farmers responded by encroaching upon and dividing the commons. After 1967, Tanzania's socialist policies affected environmental conditions in North Pare indirectly by increasing the ambiguity and negotiability of resource entitlements. The material, social and cultural legacies of these processes include environmental change, declining management capacity and persistent doubt about the value of ‘conservation’

Ambiguity · Colonialism · Commons · Development economics · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Institutional change · Political economy · Political science · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Tanzania · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Public Administration

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