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Article: Between a rock and a hard place: contested livelihoods in Qwaqwa National Park, South Africa.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Introduction
In 1987, Anderson and Grove recognized a significant shift in conservation ideology in Africa.
In the African context, the view that has commonly identified conservation with the protection of species and habitats, with broader movements to preserve wildlife and wilderness, is giving way to the process of rural development and the survival of agrarian societies in Africa.
Anderson and Grove (1977, 1-2)
Since then, it has been argued that 'the merging of conservation and development goals ... have become so widely accepted in African conservation that they constitute a new orthodoxy' (Hulme and Murphree 1999, 280). ...