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Sponsoring Nature

Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

By: Maano Ramutsindela,Marja Spierenburg,Harry Wels

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Sponsoring Nature

Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

By: Maano Ramutsindela,Marja Spierenburg,Harry Wels

Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the funding of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). This book is the first to comprehensively address this issue and focus on a dominant theme in environmental philanthropy, the links between ENGOs and CBOs and their sponsors, especially the private sector. It has been argued that donor support is based on recipient's perceived expertise and needs, with no favouritism of flagship environmental organizations as recipients of donor funds. A counterview holds that the private sector prefers to fund mainstream ENGOs for environmental research and policy reforms congenial to industrial capital. The authors show that the debate about these arguments, together with the empirical evidence on which they are based, may shed light on certain aspects of the nature of environmental philanthropy. The book evaluates practical examples of environmental philanthropy from Africa and elsewhere against philosophical questions about the material and geographical expressions of philanthropy, and the North-South connections among philanthropists and ENGOs and CBOs.

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Routledge

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1134040342

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Land Reform in South Africa

An Uneven Transformation

By: Brent McCusker,William G. Moseley,Maano Ramutsindela

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Land Reform in South Africa

An Uneven Transformation

By: Brent McCusker,William G. Moseley,Maano Ramutsindela

This thoughtful book explores the history and ongoing dilemmas of land use and land reform in South Africa. Including both theoretical and applied examples of the evolution of South Africa’s current geography of land use, the authors provide a succinct overview of land reform and evaluate the range of policies conceived over time to redress the country’s stark racial land imbalance. Drawing on compelling case studies from across South Africa, they illustrate not only the progress of land reform, but also how reforms fit within the larger historical context of racialized land use. This is the first book of its kind to fully apply geographical theory to the case of South African land reform. Rather than rely on one-dimensional technicist explanations to discuss the shortcomings of the country’s land reform program, this rich study places it in the context of bitter battles between groups seeking to exploit land policies for their own benefit.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442207183

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9781442207189

Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature

By: Maano Ramutsindela

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Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature

By: Maano Ramutsindela

Transfrontier conservation is a global concept, which encompasses the protection of biodiversity spanning the borders of two or more countries in ways that support local economic development, international relations and peace. Nowhere is this more relevant but highly debatable than in Africa, which is home to a third of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, while at the same time hosting its poorest nations. This is one of the first books to account for the emergence of transfrontier conservation in Africa against international experiences in bioregional planning. The roles of the state and local populations are analyzed, as well as the ecological, socio-economic and political implications.

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193

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CABI

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1845932226

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Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

By: Maano Ramutsindela

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Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

By: Maano Ramutsindela

This title was first published in 2001. Examining state-driven programmes of land reform, this book provides an important examination of the transformation process in post-apartheid South Africa at both national and local levels. It captures the dynamics of socio-political change at national and local levels and provides an important analysis of integration in one of the world’s most divided societies.

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141

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Routledge

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1351776460

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Cartographies of Nature

How Nature Conservation Animates Borders

By: Maano Ramutsindela

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Cartographies of Nature

How Nature Conservation Animates Borders

By: Maano Ramutsindela

The ascendancy of border studies in the last two decades or so, and the burgeoning work on nature and society neither drew attention to ecological theories of borders nor capitalised on nature as a useful avenue through which border research could be advanced. This volume fills this void by engaging with the following key questions: What insights can be drawn from species’ borders to broaden understandings of bordering? What sorts of borders are engendered by various types of conservation areas? What border stories does each of these areas tell us? What do conservation-related borders teach us about multiple lines that divide societies? Answers to these questions help researchers understand a typology of nature-related borders. The primary objectives of this volume are twofold. The first objective is to expand and deepen the links between nature conservation and border studies by bringing species’ borders into conversation with border studies, while at the same time paying attention to diverse conservation areas and conservation practices. The second objective is to highlight forms of borders associated with various types of conservation areas and the protection of certain types of natural resources. The manner in which nature conservation produces borders, and the forms those borders take, has the potential to enrich the conceptualisation of borders. The point of departure in this volume is that conservation practices produce feedback loops on social reality. Authors in the volume variously show that concerns with environmental protection and management offer possibilities for exploring, and even disrupting, borders within society and those between society and nature. Conservation areas in particular are crucial for a meaningful analysis of natures’ borders and the discourses and narratives related to them, and how such discourses influence conservation practice. This volume is an invaluable resource for research and upper-level courses on border studies, political ecology, conservation and biodiversity management, and environmental change and social impact.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443861928

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Land Reform in South Africa

An Uneven Transformation

By: Brent McCusker,William G. Moseley,Maano Ramutsindela

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An Uneven Transformation

By: Brent McCusker,William G. Moseley,Maano Ramutsindela

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Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

By: Maano Ramutsindela

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Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

Experiences in Southern Africa

By: M. Ramutsindela

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Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

Experiences in Southern Africa

By: M. Ramutsindela

Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea of a national park are a continuing reality of contemporary national and transnational parks. The volume seeks to dispel the myth that colonial beliefs and practices in protected areas have ended with the introduction of ‘new’ nature conservation policies and practices. It explores this continuity against the backdrop of the development of the national park idea in the West, and its trajectories in colonial and postcolonial societies, particularly southern Africa. This volume analyses the dynamic relations between people and national parks and assesses these in southern Africa against broader experiences in postcolonial societies. It draws examples from a broad range of situations and places. It reinserts issues of prejudices into contemporary national park systems, and accounts for continuities and interruptions in national parks ideals in different contexts. Its interpretation of material transcends the North-South divide. This volume is accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. It is of special interest to academics, policymakers and Non-Governmental Organisations. This book can also be used as prescribed or reference material in courses taught at university.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402028431

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Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature

By: Maano Ramutsindela

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At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature

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Sponsoring Nature

Sponsoring Nature

Land Reform in South Africa

Land Reform in South Africa

Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

Cartographies of Nature

Cartographies of Nature

Land Reform in South Africa

Land Reform in South Africa

Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

Unfrozen Ground: South Africa's Contested Spaces

Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

Transfrontier Conservation in Africa

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