Untamed nature and society conflict in South Africa's national parks

Zusatztext

Joint-management, has up until recently, been heralded and seen as the panacea for the settlement of the palpable conflict between conservation and land restitution, globally; but particularly, for this book, in South Africa. Furthermore, literature on conflict between conservation and land reform claims that whenever this clash arises, conservation wins. However, Vaalbos National Park deviates from this trend in two ways. I found that firstly, the Vaalbos National Park is divergent in the way that it was settled. Secondly, the way that conservation won is very interesting and shows that the literature in this area had a gap. In this research project I analyse the reasons why Vaalbos National Park (VNP) was an anomaly in terms of the historic and general trend of resolution of land claims in national parks in South Africa. The findings show that although land was returned back to the claimants, conservation still wins albeit under different forms and shapes than in other cases where co-management was the resolution. This book concludes that unless something is done by the South African government to fully assess the land question and conflict, inequality will persist.

Autorenportrait

Paballo Chauke currently holds two degrees from the University of Cape Town, SA, from the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and Sociology respectfully.He also holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management (BCM) from the School of Geography and Environment (SoGE) at the University of Oxford (Oriel College) in the UK.

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