Communal land reform in Zambia: governance, livelihood and conservation

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dc.contributor.advisorKepe, Thembela
dc.contributor.authorMetcalfe, Simon Christopher
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Economics and Management Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-11T09:36:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-11T08:01:22Z
dc.date.available2009/05/15 09:46
dc.date.available2009/05/15
dc.date.available2013-10-11T09:36:40Z
dc.date.available2024-11-11T08:01:22Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionMagister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)en_US
dc.description.abstractCommunal land tenure reform in Zambia is the overarching subject of study in this thesis. It is an important issue across southern Africa, raising questions of governance, livelihood security and conservation. WIldlife is a 'fugitive' and 'mobile' resource that traverses the spatially fixed tenure of communal lands, national parks and public forest reserves. The management of wildlife therefore requires that spatially defined proprietorial rights accommodate wildlife's temporal forage use. Land may bebounded in tenure, but if bounded by fences its utility as wildlife habitat is undermined. If land is unfenced, but its landholder cannot use wildlife then it is more a liability than an asset. Africa's terrestrial wildlife has enormous biodiversity value but its mobility requires management collaboration throughout its range, and the resolution of conflicting ecological and economic management scales. The paper does not aim to describe and explain the internal communal system of tenure over land and natural resources but rather how the communal system interacts with the state and the private sector.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/19566
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLand reform Zambiaen_US
dc.subjectCommons Zambiaen_US
dc.subjectLand tenureen_US
dc.subjectGovernment policy Zambiaen_US
dc.titleCommunal land reform in Zambia: governance, livelihood and conservationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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