Course Description & Objectives:
- Conservation versus preservation versus sustainability in general.
- Understanding Protected areas and Conservation areas.
- Protected and Conservation areas in Uganda.
- Ecological dynamics in protected areas as opposed to those in Conservation areas.
- Resource development in Conservation areas. Resource management issues in protected areas and conservation areas.
- Resource management strategies (possibilities and challenges) in protected and conservation areas of Uganda and their implications for tourism development.
- Case studies of management of protected and conservation areas in dry/range lands, moist forest lands, mountainous environments, coastal or marine areas, peri-urban and urban environments, and densely populated rural environments.
- Protected and Conservation areas institutional management frameworks, policies and laws. International cooperation and arrangements for protected and conservation areas management.