BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, LIVELIHOODS, AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA:
ISSUES IN WILDLIFE LAW AND POLICY

CALL FOR PAPERS for the Journal of International Wildlife Law and
Policy
www.jiwlp.com Editor in Chief: William C.G. Burns, ASIL-WIG and
University of Redlands [email protected]

Special Issue Editors: Shamiso Mtisi, Zimbabwe Environmental Law
Association [email protected], and Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith,
University of California, Davis [email protected]

Invitation

The Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy intends to publish
in volume 7, early in 2004, a special issue on a variety of legal and
policy issues that have arisen in Africa, where concerns about and
programs for biodiversity conservation, livelihoods, and development
intersect.

Authors from a variety of scholarly disciplines are invited to submit
proposals for papers. The Journal, now to be published by Taylor and
Francis, reaches a diverse internationa audience of scholars,
managers,
and others with biodiversity conservation and sustainable development
interests in international groups and institutions.

Prospective Topics

Among the topics authors are invited to address are these:

* the origins, nature and impacts of transboundary natural resource
management (TBNRM) projects in Africa, particularly the impacts on
rural
livelihoods and wildlife management of transfrontier national parks, in
all parts of the continent.

* explanations of the evolution of wildlife law and policy in one or
more selected African countries, highlighting the important attributes
of and interconnections between pre-colonial law and customs, colonial
laws and policies, post-independence changes to colonial practices, and
the impact, if any, on national law and policy of commitments to
international wildlife regimes, such as CITES, CBD, and CMS.

* the legal and policy prospects for and implications of the bushmeat
"crisis" in Africa, particularly papers outlining how bushmeat
management policies and programs could be designed and instituted at
the
national level in one or more African states.

* studies of the policing in one or more African co untries of trade in
species that is regulated by CITES, especially but not exclusively
plant
species, and of realistic opportunities for improving compliance
without
adversely affecting livelihoods.

* critical examinations of the formulation and implementation in one or
more selected African countries of national biodiversity strategies,
and
of the relationship these have to biodiversity conservation research
and
management within those countries.

* detailed empirical analyses of the legal and policy factors within
African states that constrain or inhibit progress in implementing
multi-lateral wildlife agreements and conventions, such as the Lusaka
Agreement, the wildlife protocol to SADC, CITES, CBFD, and CMS.

Other proposals for papers on any topic related to wildlife law in
Africa are also welcome and should be discussed directly with the
editors.

Abstracts

Proposals should be outline d in abstract form (not to exceed 300 words)
and submitted as an MS Word 2002 file by e-mail to one or both of the
special issue editors NOT LATER THAN September 30, 2003. Decisions on
acceptance will be made promptly and in some cases before September 30.

Manuscripts

Authors whose proposals are accepted will have until December 15, 2003
to submit a manuscript for review and editing. Manuscripts will
generally be 10,000 to 12,000 words (or less, at the author's
discretion) but may not exceed 12,000 words without prior approval from
the editors. The style and format of manuscripts and citations must
follow the "Guidelines for Authors" published on the Journal's web site
www.jiwlp.com

Shamiso Mtisi, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
mailto:[email protected]
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, University of California
mailto:[email protected]