Clark C. Gibson, Politicians and Poachers: the political economy of wildlife policy in Africa. (book review)

CLARK C. GIBSON, Politicians and Poachers: the political economy of wildlife policy in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 245 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling] (US$59.99), ISBN 0 521 62385 5 (hard covers), 14.95 [pounds sterling] (US$24.95), ISBN 0 521 66378 4 (paperback).

Clark Gibson provides an important view of African wildlife conservation policy with his `new institutionalist' study of the politics of African states and societies. By focusing specifically on the effects of a one-party state in Zambia on wildlife conservation Gibson is able to explain clearly the ...

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