Quantifying the potential of restored natural capital to alleviate poverty and help conserve nature : a case study from South Africa

dc.contributor.authorBlignaut, James Nelson
dc.contributor.authorMoolman, Christina Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-05T08:54:45Z
dc.date.available2008-06-05T08:54:45Z
dc.date.issued2006-09
dc.description.abstractPoverty and environmental degradation seem to be endemic in many of the former homeland territories of South Africa. The political legacy of Apartheid might have ceased, but the economic and environmental consequences thereof still have to be dealt with. In one interesting case such a poverty-stricken and environmentally degraded area (Bushbuckridge) lies adjacent to a world conservation icon, the Kruger National Park. Currently, however, the community of Bushbuckridge does not enjoy much benefit from this unique geographic location. On the contrary there seems to be increasing tension between the community in their quest for survival and the national park as a conservation enclave. This tension will not disappear automatically. The situation needs to be managed. It is proposed here that by broadening the conservation corridor through land restoration and by incorporating the Bushbuckridge communal land as an IUCN Category VI protected area (a protected area within which sustainable resource harvesting by communities is permitted) into the Kruger National Park and under the provision that the community remains the land owner, the conservation initiative could benefit the community as much as by a factor of four. For this to be successful a proper managerial and institutional system will have to be in place, including a system that will allow the trade in ecosystem goods and services.en
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dc.identifier.citationBlignaut, J & Moolman, C 2006, 'Quantifying the potential of restored natural capital to alleviate poverty and help conserve nature: a case study from South Africa', Journal for Nature Conservation, vol. 14, no. 3-4, pp. 237-248. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/16171381]en
dc.identifier.issn1617-1381
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jnc.2006.04.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/5813
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsElsevieren
dc.subjectDegradationen
dc.subjectDegraded land restorationen
dc.subjectEcosystem goods and servicesen
dc.subjectValuationen
dc.subjectRestorationen
dc.subjectNature conservationen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectConservation by the communityen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectPoverty alleviationen
dc.subjectSouth Africaen
dc.subjectSubsistence agricultureen
dc.subject.lcshNature conservation -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshPoverty -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshLand use -- South Africaen
dc.titleQuantifying the potential of restored natural capital to alleviate poverty and help conserve nature : a case study from South Africaen
dc.typePostprint Articleen

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