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Title
Communal land reform in Zambia: governance, livelihood and conservation |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2277 |
Date
2006 |
Author(s)
Metcalfe, Simon Christopher |
Contributor(s)
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences; Kepe, Thembela |
Abstract
Communal land tenure reform in Zambia is the overarching subject of study in this thesis. It is an important issue across southern Africa, raising questions of governance, livelihood security and conservation. WIldlife is a 'fugitive' and 'mobile' resource that traverses the spatially fixed tenure of communal lands, national parks and public forest reserves. The management of wildlife therefore requires that spatially defined proprietorial rights accommodate wildlife's temporal forage use. Land may bebounded in tenure, but if bounded by fences its utility as wildlife habitat is undermined. If land is unfenced, but its landholder cannot use wildlife then it is more a liability than an asset. Africa's terrestrial wildlife has enormous biodiversity value but its mobility requires management collaboration throughout its range, and the resolution of conflicting ecological and economic management scales. The paper does not aim to describe and explain the internal communal system of tenure over land and natural resources but rather how the communal system interacts with the state and the private sector. - Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS) |
Subject(s)
Land reform Zambia; Commons Zambia; Land tenure; Government policy Zambia |
Language
en |
Publisher
University of the Western Cape |
Type of publication
Thesis |
Rights
University of the Western Cape |
Repository
Cape Town - Theses and Dissertations, University of Western Cape
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