Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- 9 Pastoralism, Environmental Infrastructures, and State–Local Society Relations in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree
- 11 Into the Future: Envisioning, Planning, and Negotiating Environmental Infrastructures
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
9 - Pastoralism, Environmental Infrastructures, and State–Local Society Relations in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
from Part 5 - Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- 9 Pastoralism, Environmental Infrastructures, and State–Local Society Relations in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree
- 11 Into the Future: Envisioning, Planning, and Negotiating Environmental Infrastructures
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
Chapter 9 depicts pastoral livelihood strategies in the 1990s and early 2000s. The altered savannah landscape with its far flung network of boreholes and its peculiar vegetation structure (mopane bush and annual species dominating over perennial species) is used by an enormous regional herd. Also the human population increases due to better health provisions and settlement patterns changed. Degradation of rangelands and attempts of herders to access new pastures, a demise of communal control over grazing lands, and subsequent attempts to recapture the commons are hallmarks of this period.
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- Shaping the African SavannahFrom Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, pp. 241 - 278Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020