Enclosing the local for the global commons: Community land rights in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area

Conservation and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-97

  Spierenburg, Marja ^a   Steenkamp, Conrad ^b   Welsa, Harry ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

CBNRM; Conservation; Decentralisation; Development; Land restitution; Land rights; NGOs; Public private partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749099161     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aberly, D. 1999. Interpreting Bioregionalism: A Story from Many Voices. In: Bioregionalism (ed. M.V. McGinni), pp. 13-42. Routledge, London, UK.
2. Agrawal, A. and J. Ribot. 1999. Accountability in Decentralization: A Framework with South Asian and African Cases. Journal of Developing Areas 33: 473-502.
3. Chapin, M. 2004. A Challenge to Conservationists. World Watch Magazine November/December: 17-31.
4. Conyers, D. 2002. Whose Elephants Are They? Decentralization of Control Over Wildlife Management Through the CAMPFIRE Programme in Binga District, Zimbabwe. Environmental governance in Africa. Working paper series no. 4. World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
5. Cousins, B. and A. Claassens. 2005. Communal Tenure 'From Above' and 'From Below'. Land Rights, Authority and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa. In: Competing Jurisdictions. Settling Land Claims in Africa (eds. S. Evers, M. Spierenburg and H. Wels), pp. 21-54. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
6. De Villiers, B. 1999. Land Claims & National Parks. The Makuleke Experience. Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa.
7. Duffy, R. 1997. The Environmental Challenge to the Nation-state: Superparks and National Parks Policy in Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies 23(3): 441-451.
8. Dzingirai, V. 2003. The New Scramble for the African Countryside. Development and Change 34(2): 243-263.
9. Evers, S., M. Spierenburg and H. Wels (eds). 2005. Competing Jurisdictions. Settling Land Claims in Africa. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
10. Faikir, S. 2004. Globalisation and Its Influence on Poverty and Environment. IUCN Policy Think Tank 17.
11. GLTP. 2004. About the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. www.greatlimpopopark.com/main.php. Last consulted, 13 August 2006.
12. Gonçalves, E. 2005. Finding the Chief: Political Decentralisation and Traditional Authority in Mocumbi, Southern Mozambique. Africa Insight 35(3): 64-70.
13. Groenewald, Y. and F. Macleod. 2005. Land Claims 'Could Kill Kruger'. Mail & Guardian 18-24 February 2005.
14. Harries, P. 1987. A Forgotten Corner of the Transvaal: Reconstructing the History of a Re-located Community Through Oral Testimony and Song. In: Class, Community and Conflict (ed. B. Bozzoli), pp. 93-134. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, South Africa.
15. Hughes McDermott, D. 2002. Going Transboundary: Scale Making and Exclusion in Southern African Conservation'. Paper presented at the Environment and Development Advanced Research Circle, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 19 April 2002.
16. Hulme, D. and M. Murphree. 2001. Community Conservation in Africa: An Introduction. In: African Wildlife and Livelihoods, the Promise and Performance of Community Conservation (eds. D. Hulme and M. Murphree), pp. 1-8. James Currey, Oxford, UK; Heinemann, Portsmouth NH, USA; Kacere Press, Zomba, Malawi; Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda; E.A.E.P., Nairobi, Kenya; Weaver Press, Harare, Zimbabwe; David Philip Publishers, Cape Town South Africa.
17. Hutton, J., W.M. Adams and J. Murombedzi. 2005. Back to the Barriers? Changing Narratives in Biodiversity Conservation. Forum for Development Studies 2: 341-370.
18. Koch, E. 1998. Nature Has the Power to Heal Old Wounds: War, Peace and Changing Patterns of Conservation in Southern Africa. In: South Africa in Southern Africa: Reconfiguring the Region (ed. D.I. Simon), pp. 54-71. James Currey, Oxford, UK.
19. Koro, E. 2005. New Development Model Spurs Growth in South African Rural Community. World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Features 3(2). Available online: http://newsroom.wri.org/wrifeatures_text.cfm?ContentID=3323&NewsletterID=83. Accessed in April 2008.
20. Manin, B., A. Przeworski and S. Stokes. 1999. Elections and Representation. In: Democracy, Accountability and Representation (eds. A. Przeworski, S. Stokes and B. Manin), pp. 29-54. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, USA.
21. Makuleke, L. 2007. The Power Behind the Scenes: A Case Study of the Makuleke Community and Their Participation in the Establishment of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Parks (GLTP)', unpublished paper, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa.
22. Mavhunga, C. and M. Spierenburg. 2004. The Great Limpopo TFCA: The Forgotten History of an Idea. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Environmental History, Victoria (British Columbia), Canada. April 1-4 2004.
23. Munthali, S.M. and B. Soto. 2001. Overt and Latent Conflicts Associated with the Establishment, Development and Management of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park', unpublished paper. Transfrontier Conservation Areas Secretariat, Maputo, Mozambique.
24. Neumann, R.P. 1998. Imposing Wilderness. Struggles Over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA.
25. Norman, W.O. 2005. Living on the Frontline: Politics, Migration and Transfrontier Conservation in the Mozambican Villages of the Mozambique- South Africa Borderland. Ph.D. thesis. London: London School of Economics and Political Science. UK.
26. Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy Compromised. Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africa. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
27. Ramutsindela, M. 2004a. Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies: Experiences in Southern Africa. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, and London, UK.
28. Ramutsindela, M. 2004b. Glocalisation and Nature Conservation Strategies in Twenty-first Century Southern Africa. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 95(1): 61-72.
29. Reid, H. 2001. Contractual National Parks and the Makuleke Community. Human Ecology 29(2): 135-155.
30. Ribot, J.C. 2004. Waiting for Democracy: The Politics of Choice in Natural Resource Decentralization. World Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA.
31. Ribot, J.C. 2007. Representation, Citizenship and the Public Domain in Democratic Decentralization. Development 50(1): 43-49.
32. Ribot, J. and A. Larson (eds.).2005. Decentralization of Natural Resources: Experiences in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Frank Cass, London, UK.
33. RRP (Refugee Research Programme). 2002. A Park for the People? Community Consultation in Coutada 16, Mozambique. Research Report, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesberg, South Africa.
34. SANP/PPF (South Africa National Parks Service. Peace Parks Foundation). 2003. Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park, A New Era in Ecosystem Management and Co-operation for Southern Africa'. Brochure published by SANParks in co-operation with the Peace Parks Foundation.
35. Spierenburg, M., C. Steenkamp and H. Wels. 2006. Resistance Against the Marginalization of Communities in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology 47: 18-31.
36. Steenkamp, C. 2000. The Makuleke Land Claim: Power Relations and CBNRM. International Institute for Environment and Development (Evaluating Eden Series), London, UK.
37. Steenkamp, C. 2001. The Makuleke Land Claim: An Environmental Conflict'. Ph.D. thesis. Johannesberg: University of the Witwatersrand. South Africa.
38. Vines, A. 1991. Renamo: Terrorism in Mozambique. James Currey, London, UK.
39. Walley, C. 2004. Rough Waters. Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey), USA.
40. Wolmer, W. 2003. Transboundary Conservation: The Politics of Ecological Integrity in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Journal of Southern African Studies 29(1): 261-278.