Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu

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dc.contributor.advisorSharp, Johnen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHuggins, Gregory Bryanen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-01T07:08:52Z
dc.date.available2016-09-01T07:08:52Z
dc.date.issued1993en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 201-214.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental degradation is widely regarded as an integral part of South Africa's homeland areas. Conventional thinking often blames so-called traditional farming practices, attitudes and values for this situation. In other words, the blame is placed with the residents of the areas and environmental degradation is explained away as the result of a particular cultural make-up. Following this line of thought, education via agricultural extension is mooted as the primary solution to what is regarded as an inherent problem. The central concern of this dissertation is to examine the dynamics of natural resource management by residents of a rural area in KwaZulu known as oBivane. The thesis shows that the conditions leading to environmental degradation are best seen as the result of particular historical and political processes and not simply as the results of particular patterns of behaviour that are culturally driven. These processes, given primary impetus by massive population influx onto a restricted land base and combined with the peculiarities of differential access to resources and the need to preserve the interests of elite groups, have forced sectors of the South African population into situations where physical survival has necessarily had grave environmental cost. One of the consequences of apartheid policies has been to institutionalise environmental degradation in particular areas of the country.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHuggins, G. B. (1993). <i>Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21612en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHuggins, Gregory Bryan. <i>"Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21612en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHuggins, G. 1993. Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Huggins, Gregory Bryan AB - Environmental degradation is widely regarded as an integral part of South Africa's homeland areas. Conventional thinking often blames so-called traditional farming practices, attitudes and values for this situation. In other words, the blame is placed with the residents of the areas and environmental degradation is explained away as the result of a particular cultural make-up. Following this line of thought, education via agricultural extension is mooted as the primary solution to what is regarded as an inherent problem. The central concern of this dissertation is to examine the dynamics of natural resource management by residents of a rural area in KwaZulu known as oBivane. The thesis shows that the conditions leading to environmental degradation are best seen as the result of particular historical and political processes and not simply as the results of particular patterns of behaviour that are culturally driven. These processes, given primary impetus by massive population influx onto a restricted land base and combined with the peculiarities of differential access to resources and the need to preserve the interests of elite groups, have forced sectors of the South African population into situations where physical survival has necessarily had grave environmental cost. One of the consequences of apartheid policies has been to institutionalise environmental degradation in particular areas of the country. DA - 1993 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1993 T1 - Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu TI - Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21612 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/21612
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHuggins GB. Social aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazulu. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1993 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21612en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.titleSocial aspects of natural resource management in rural Kwazuluen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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