Transfrontier conservation in Africa : at the confluence of capital, politics and nature /

• Main Author: Ramutsindela, Maano, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Transfrontier conservation areas > Africa, Southern.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Land Resources.; Biological Resources (General); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Biodiversity.; Conservation areas.; Frontier areas.; Nature conservation.; Politics.; Socioeconomics.; Electronic books.
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This book provides a background to the ideologies and practices underpinning the content and form of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in Africa. The roles of the state and local populations in the emergence of transfrontier conservation are analysed, as well as the ecological, socioeconomic...

Table of Contents:

• Perspectives on transfrontier conservation areas : an introduction
• On the ideological foundations of transfrontier conservation areas
• Peace through ecology? : a soft approach to hard realities
• Local initiatives and their regional and global connections
• Southern African development community : a regional catalyst
• Silencing community struggles
• The renaissance of the bush : the reinvention of the Cape to Cairo route in contemporary Africa
• Mapping Africa's future
• Postscript : transfrontier parks and the legacy of Rupert.