Boundless: Conservation and Development on the Southern African Frontier

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2011-12

Authors

Lauermann, Paul David

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University of Oregon

Abstract

This thesis interrogates the transfrontier conservation areas (TFCA) program of southern Africa. Promoted since the mid-1990s as the solution to the vexing problems of environmental degradation and rural development in the region, these cross-border projects have attracted a broad coalition of supporters including public and private donor groups, regional politicians, and the international conservation community. Though a large academic literature surrounds the program, a holistic understanding of its development--and an accounting of its success--has yet to emerge. This thesis seeks to rectify this by probing the nature and structure of transfrontier discourse, positing the program's success as directly born of its appeal to a triad of interests composed of donors, national politicians, and the regional conservation community. Further, it is argued that the heavy marketing of the program as a "win-win" scenario for conservation and development has effectively displaced once popular community-based narratives/approaches.

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x, 117 p. : ill. (some col.)

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African studies, Land use -- Africa, Southern -- Planning, Social sciences, Conservation, Development, Land use policy, Rural development, Transfrontier conservation

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