Boundless: Conservation and Development on the Southern African Frontier
| dc.contributor.author | Lauermann, Paul David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-30T00:31:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-30T00:31:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-12 | |
| dc.description | x, 117 p. : ill. (some col.) | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Committee in charge: Dennis C. Galvan, Chair; Alexander B. Murphy, Member; Derrick Hindery, Member | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/12121 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Dept. of International Studies, M.A. , 2011; | |
| dc.rights | rights_reserved | en_US |
| dc.subject | African studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land use -- Africa, Southern -- Planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conservation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land use policy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rural development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transfrontier conservation | en_US |
| dc.title | Boundless: Conservation and Development on the Southern African Frontier | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Conservation and Development on the Southern African Frontier | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |