Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing

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dc.contributor.advisorRamutsindela, Maanoen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorThakholi, Leratoen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-20T06:51:18Z
dc.date.available2016-07-20T06:51:18Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn light of the current literature on green grabbing, this study is motivated by the need to understand whether TFCAs are characterized by green grabbing and what form they take if indeed they are unfolding there. It investigated the modes of land control and transfer - within the Lesotho component of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area and South Africa's Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area - in order to explore the politics of land in TFCAs through the green grabbing lens. Global environmental organizations are increasingly calling for more terrestrial and marine resources to be protected from the looming global environmental crisis. The knowledge production about environmental problems, threats and solutions are often articulated at the global level through reports and conventions and are expected to be adopted at the local level. One such solution to loss of biodiversity that has enjoyed increasing support in southern Africa is the concept of the Peace Parks in the form of Transfrontier Conservation Areas. With the land question an ever brooding cloud over southern Africa, this study finds itself interrogating TFCAs and the land questions they raise. Taking into consideration the current land claims in South Africa, the contested issue of traditional authorities and the problems associated with communal land tenure. The study used hegemony as a lens through which to understand how conservation initiatives at the local level are an amalgamation of how the global environmental bloc has conceptualized conservation both as a practice and an idea. One such idea that has been widely popularised is the need for more land for conservation purposes. This approach allowed the identification of environmental international conventions and protocols as a first step in a series of prongs that legitimizes green grabbing. Furthermore, it used property rights to explore how legal green grabbing occur, that is, how property rights are used by private land owners as well as the state to appropriate more land, and in some instances how property rights were used to resist the encroachment of conservation in the frontier.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationThakholi, L. (2016). <i>Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20473en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationThakholi, Lerato. <i>"Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20473en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationThakholi, L. 2016. Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Thakholi, Lerato AB - In light of the current literature on green grabbing, this study is motivated by the need to understand whether TFCAs are characterized by green grabbing and what form they take if indeed they are unfolding there. It investigated the modes of land control and transfer - within the Lesotho component of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area and South Africa's Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area - in order to explore the politics of land in TFCAs through the green grabbing lens. Global environmental organizations are increasingly calling for more terrestrial and marine resources to be protected from the looming global environmental crisis. The knowledge production about environmental problems, threats and solutions are often articulated at the global level through reports and conventions and are expected to be adopted at the local level. One such solution to loss of biodiversity that has enjoyed increasing support in southern Africa is the concept of the Peace Parks in the form of Transfrontier Conservation Areas. With the land question an ever brooding cloud over southern Africa, this study finds itself interrogating TFCAs and the land questions they raise. Taking into consideration the current land claims in South Africa, the contested issue of traditional authorities and the problems associated with communal land tenure. The study used hegemony as a lens through which to understand how conservation initiatives at the local level are an amalgamation of how the global environmental bloc has conceptualized conservation both as a practice and an idea. One such idea that has been widely popularised is the need for more land for conservation purposes. This approach allowed the identification of environmental international conventions and protocols as a first step in a series of prongs that legitimizes green grabbing. Furthermore, it used property rights to explore how legal green grabbing occur, that is, how property rights are used by private land owners as well as the state to appropriate more land, and in some instances how property rights were used to resist the encroachment of conservation in the frontier. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing TI - Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20473 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20473
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationThakholi L. Modes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbing. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20473en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Environmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleModes of land control in transfrontier conservation areas : a case of green grabbingen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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