Drilling through Conservation Policy: Oil Exploration in Murchison Falls Protected Area, Uganda

Drilling through Conservation Policy: Oil Exploration in Murchison Falls Protected Area, Uganda

Approximately 2.5 billion barrels of commercially-viable oil, worth $2 billion in annual revenue for 20 years, were discovered under the Ugandan portion of the Albertine Rift in 2006. The region also contains seven of Uganda's protected areas and a growing ecotourism industry. We conducted inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Catrina A MacKenzie, Rebecca K Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, Joel Hartter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
Protectionism
neoliberal conservation
community-based conservation
oil exploration
ecotourism
protected area
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=3;spage=322;epage=333;aulast=MacKenzie

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