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Coppice harvesting of fuelwood species on a South African Common: Utilizing scientific and indigenous knowledge in community based natural resource management

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dc.contributor.authorKaschula, S. A.en
dc.contributor.authorTwine, W. E.en
dc.contributor.authorScholes, M. C.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialWelverdiend villageen
dc.coverage.spatialBushbuckridge regionen
dc.coverage.spatialLimpopo Provinceen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:28Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:28Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe limitations of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) with respect to the difficulties of comparing local versus scientific knowledge categories within a bounded definition of 'community' were investigated by means of a study exploring local indigenous knowledge pertaining to harvesting technique, and the impact of soil and species type on the post-harvest coppice response of popular savanna fuelwood species, among rural inhabitants of the Bushbuckridge region of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Soils and plants were evaluated chiefly in terms of their perceived ability to retain precipitation, making rainfall a driving force in local understanding of environmental productivity. Some indigenous knowledge showed an agreement with biological data, but overall the variability in responses, as well as the diverse scales at which indigenous and scientific knowledge is directed, were too great to allow for simplistic parallels between local ecological indices to be made. Indigenous environmental knowledge was underscored by the perceived symbolic link between environmental and social degradation. It is recommended that environmental managers incorporate indigenous knowledge as a component of a systems-level approach to natural resource management, where biological, cultural, economic, and symbolic aspects of natural resource use are nested within a broader ecosocial system. This approach to indigenous knowledge is offered as an alternative to the simple scientific evaluation that so often characterizes environmental management.en
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dc.identifier1692en
dc.identifier.citationHuman Ecology 33(3): 387-418en
dc.identifier.issn0300-7839en
dc.identifier.issn1572-9915en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66291en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherDordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishersen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyrights 2005 by Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectStakeholdersen
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectCommunity managementen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectQuality of lifeen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectCommunity participationen
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectLocal governanceen
dc.subjectCommunity-based natural resource managementen
dc.subjectCBNRMen
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgeen
dc.subjectEnvironmental managementen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleCoppice harvesting of fuelwood species on a South African Common: Utilizing scientific and indigenous knowledge in community based natural resource managementen
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