Conservation Meets Militarisation in Kruger National Park: Historical Encounters and Complex Legacies

Conservation and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 356-369

  Lunstrum, Elizabeth ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

borderlands; conservation; environmental history; militarisation; Peace Parks; refugees; securitisation; Southern Africa; transboundary conservation; violence; wildlife crime commercial poaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964830699     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.179885     Document Type: Article

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