Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- 9 Pastoralism, Environmental Infrastructures, and State–Local Society Relations in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree
- 11 Into the Future: Envisioning, Planning, and Negotiating Environmental Infrastructures
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
10 - The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree
from Part 5 - Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- 9 Pastoralism, Environmental Infrastructures, and State–Local Society Relations in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree
- 11 Into the Future: Envisioning, Planning, and Negotiating Environmental Infrastructures
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
Since the 1990s conservation is of major importance in the region. Communal conservancies now cover most of north-western Namibia. Conservancies self-organise conservationist measures and relegate land to exclusive wildlife use. Such conservancies are territorial units with clearly defined boundaries. They are governmentally acknowledged and are run by elected committees. They hope to reap income from tourism and all figures document that conservancies gain first of all profound monetary support from international donors but also gain from tourism (at least some of them do). The chapter discusses the economic, social, and cultural repercussions of the reorganisation of communal natural resource management. It problematises the difficult translation of global blueprints of sustainable environmental management into local settings.
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- Shaping the African SavannahFrom Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, pp. 279 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020