From Conflict to Negotiation

Nature-based development on the South African Wild Coast. Special edition The Rio Earth Summit of 1992 introduced several new approaches to environmental management under the general heading of sustainable development. One of these approaches has forced conservationists to concede that it is no longer feasible or ethical to exclude resident communities from protected areas, as had been the practice for more than a century. The alternative approach, highlighting considerations of social justice and economic empowerment, is to recognise that humans are also part of the local ecology and to find sustainable ways to maintain local livelihoods along with biodiversity.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 295mm

Pages:

356

ISBN-13:

978-07969-1992-2

Publish Year:

2002

Rights:

World Rights

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Author Biographies
Forward
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Robin Palmer, Herman Timmermans and Derick Fay

Part One
1 The Land Herman – Timmermans and Kamal Naicker
2 The Residents – Robin Palmer and Derick Fay
3 The Outsiders – Robin Palmer and Khayalethu Kralo
Part Two

4 Competing for the Forests: Annexation, Demarcation and their Consequences c. 1878 to 1936 – Derick Fay, Herman Timmermans and Robin Palmer
5 Closing the Forests: Segregation, Exclusion and their consequences from 1936 to1994 – Derick Fay, Herman Timmermans and Robin Palmer
6 Regaining the Forests: Reform and Development from 1994 to 2001 – Robin Palmer, Derick Fay, Herman Timmermans, Fonda Lewis and Johan Viljoen
Part three
7 Poverty and Differentiation at Dwesa-Cwebe – Derick Fay and Robin Palmer
8 Natural Rescource use at Dwesa-Cwebe – Herman Timmermans
9 Contempory Tourism at Dwesa-Cwebe – Robin Palmer and Johan Viljoen
Part Four
10 South Africa and the New Tourism – Robin Palmer and Johan Viljoen
11 Conservation and Communities: Learning from Experience – Christo Fabricius
12 A Development Vision for Dwesa-Cwebe – Robin Palmer, Derick Fay, Herman Timmermans and Christo Fabricius
Conclusion – Robin Palmer, Herman Timmermans and Derick Fay
Postscript
Appendix A
Bibliography

Robin Palmer has a DPhil from the University if Sussex. He is associate professor in tthe Department of Anthropology at Rhodes University, and has collaborated with the Institute of Social and Economic Research in several previous research projects in the former Ciskei and Transkei.

Herman Timmermans studied Environmental and Geographic Science at the University of Cape Town. He is based at the Institute of Social and economic Research, and is actively involved in a number of initiatives directed at reconciling conservation and rural development objectives.

Derick Fay is currently writing his PhD in sociocutural anthropology and lecturing at Boston University. In 1998-99 he was visiting scholar at Rhodes University’s Institute if Social and Economic Research while conducting ehtnographic fieldwork in Hobeni, one of the Dwesa-Cwebe communities.

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