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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Environmental Humanities South"”.
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Rivers that become reservoirs: an ethnography of water commodification in Lesotho
Through exploring the relationship of people to water and how that relationship changes when water becomes a commodity, this study addresses the devaluation of the relationship of people and water in the environment they live in and contrasts the devaluation with the value attributed to commodified …
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Texturing absence: a geography of the disappeared Woodstock Beach
Up until the late 1960s, the Cape Town suburb of Woodstock had a beach. Decades of land reclamation – begun as early as 1890 – culminated in the beach being entirely subsumed by railways, roads, and harbor infrastructure. Woodstock's beachside heritage is largely unknown, as are the processes by …
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Community-based natural resource management: The case of Community Forest Management Areas in Pete, Zanzibar
The shift from centralised conservation to Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) was the highlight of the conservation discourse across the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s. CBNRM efforts were believed to have the potential of successfully merging biodiversity conservation …
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Examining the mechanisms for and factors affecting benefit sharing in two South African aquaculture projects
… individuals and coastal communities in South Africa derive from involvement in Blue Economy projects linked to aquaculture as well as the key factors enabling and inhibiting benefit sharing. In contexts where local people perceive that they benefit from Blue Economy activities, the study …
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Examining the mechanisms for and factors affecting benefit sharing in two South African aquaculture projects
… individuals and coastal communities in South Africa derive from involvement in Blue Economy projects linked to aquaculture as well as the key factors enabling and inhibiting benefit sharing. In contexts where local people perceive that they benefit from Blue Economy activities, the study …
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An Inquiry Into the Diverse Modes of Caring in Khayelitsha Wetlands Parks World of Many Worlds
… with and relating to the KWP in Cape Town, South Africa, which do not subscribe to logics of domination. This is done by highlighting the often overshadowed and taken for granted forms of care and reciprocity that do not fall into the realm of the “advanced”, “technical”, and “objective” …
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Hippopotami in a liminal space: a multi-species ethnography of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura
… economy-based approaches to development and environmental management with the many engagements with the lake, and how this in turn affects human-hippo relations on Lake Tanganyika's riparian zone. Environmental protection and management discourses are frequently portrayed as a unified, …
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The Kuils River multiple: versions of an urban river on the edge of Cape Town, South Africa
… with the Kuils River, located in Cape Town, South Africa, are shaped and in turn shape the river. The management of water (in pipes and rivers) and the development of water infrastructure are deeply rooted in societal development agendas that, over time, have been embedded in discourses of …
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Examining the Experiences of Smallholder farmers in Malawi towards Farm Input Subsidies
… after the fifth extinction of dinosaurs? Can environmental pollution be reversed? Can there be restoration or repair of the broken water cycle for that beloved Ntengera river and all other water bodies and the entire ecosystems? Can we travel back to the future through our actions to make …