Conservation, Markets and the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa : Commodifying The 'Wild'.

Focuses on a key issue of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bollig, Michael.
Other Authors: Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe., Nghitevelekwa, Romie Vonkie., Lendelvo, Selma Mekondjo., Lacan, Léa., Kalvelage, Linus., Greiner, Clemens., Revilla-Diez, Javier., Hulke, Carolin., Ndwandwe, Sthembile.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Future Rural Africa Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • PART 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Introduction: Practices, Discourses, and Materialities Surrounding the Commodification of the 'Wild
  • 2. Fetishising the 'Wild': Conservation, commodities, and capitalism
  • 3. Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Conceptual considerations and economic development in
  • 4. Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Commodification in Southern Africa: A failed approach for social ju
  • 5. Transfrontier Conservation Governance, Commodification of Nature, and the New Dynamics of Sovereign
  • PART 3 PLANTS FROM THE WILDERNESS FOR A GLOBAL MARKET: THE COMMODIFICATION OF NON-DOMESTICATED (WI
  • 6. Towards Pro-poor or Pro-profit? The governance framework for harvesting and trade of devil's claw
  • 7. Marginalisation and Exclusion in Honeybush Commercialisation in South Africa
  • 8. From Forest to National Resource: Forest conservation and state power in Baringo, Kenya
  • 9. Commodifying East Africa's Sandalwood: Organised crime and community participation in transnational
  • 10. The Gum Arabic Business: Modernisation of production in north-eastern Nigeria
  • PART 4 COMMODIFYING WILDLIFE
  • 11. Producing Elephant Commodities for 'Conservation Hunting' in Namibian Communal-area Conservancies
  • 12. Human-Wildlife Interaction, Rural Conflict, and Wildlife Conservation
  • 13. Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia
  • PART 5 COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS
  • 14. Women in Rural Northern Namibia and the Commodification of Indigenous Natural Products
  • 15.Conservation, Traditional Authorities, and the Commodification of the Wild: A Namibian perspective
  • 16. Commodification of Wildlife Resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
  • 17. Justice Dilemmas in Conservation Conflicts in Uganda.
  • PART 6 CONCLUSIONS
  • 18. Conclusions: Commodifying the 'Wild' - Where do we go from here?
  • Index
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