Transfrontier Conservation Areas

People Living on the Edge

Jens Andersson, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, David Cumming , Vupenyu Dzingirai

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English

Earthscan Ltd
24 August 2012

Land rights; Tourism industry; Conservation of the environment

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of African communities. Cross-border collaboration and ecotourism became seen as the vehicles of this promise, which would enhance regional peace and stability along the way. However, as these highly political projects take shape, conservation and development policy making progressively shifts from the national to regional and global arenas, and the peoples most affected by TFCA formation tend to disappear from view.

This book focuses on the forgotten people displaced by, or living on the edge of these protected wildlife areas. It moves beyond the grand 'enchanting promise' of conservation and development across frontiers, and ill-conceived notions of TFCAs and/or transfrontier parks as unified socio-ecological systems. Peoples' dependency on natural resources -- the specific combination of crop cultivation, livestock keeping and resource harvesting activities -- varies enormously along the conservation frontier, as does their reliance on resources on the other side of the conservation boundary. Hence, the studies in this book move from the dream of ecotourism-fuelled development supporting nature conservation, towards the local realities of marginalized people in marginal environments on the edge of national parks and protected areas.

Edited by: Jens Andersson, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, David Cumming, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Ken Giller
Imprint: Earthscan Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 830g
ISBN: 9781849712088
ISBN 10: 1849712085
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 August 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jens A. Andersson is a rural development sociologist who has worked on smallholder farming and migration in southern Africa. He coordinates the Competing Claims on Natural Resources programme, a collaboration between Wageningen University and several universities in southern Africa. Vupenyu Dzingirai, is a social anthropologist based at the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. He has worked intensively in the Zambezi Valley among indigenous communities threatened with development activities. Michel de Garine-Witchatitsky is an ecologist and a veterinarian who has worked on livestock-wildlife interactions in Southern Africa. He coordinates the collaborative Research Platform Production and Conservation in Partnership. David Cumming is an ecologist who has been working in conservation in southern Africa since the early 1960s. He is presently an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, a Research Associate at the University of Zimbabwe, a freelance consultant, and advisor to the AHEAD-GLTFCA initiative. Ken E. Giller is an agroecologist who works principally on sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa. He is leader of the Competing Claims on Natural Resources programme.

Reviews for Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People Living on the Edge

Surely this book must be considered essential reading for all academics, practitioners and policy makers who are working in transboundary areas in the region, and particularly within developing countries of the world. It is to be hoped that it will influence changes in the way that practitioners work on TFCAs, and refocus their efforts to devise policy and initiatives that drive more rapid and sustainable improvements to the livelihoods of people who live there, while also promoting biodiversity conservation in expansive conservation areas. - Dr Anna Spenceley, IUCN The main strength of Transfrontier Conservation Areas lies in its detailed and thorough analysis of the complexities facing TFCA planners in edge environments, which to date have received relatively little research attention. - Biological Conservation, James Bennett, Coventry University A search on Amazon.com will present you with five recent books on Transfrontier Conservation. This volume, however, deserves to be particularly recommended as a significant analysis of development policy. It confronts the ideology of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa systematically with the actual realities on the ground and finds that these do not fit. In that respect, it is reminiscent of Ferguson's Anti Politics Machine. - Jan Kees van Donge, University of Papua New Guinea , European Journal of Development Research