期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 395-417出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1070496515598348
关键词
the capability approach; human rights; market-based conservation; South Africa; agency
资金
- Linnaeus Grant: Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID) is a Linnaeus programme - Swedish Research Council Formas
The article documents the case of South Africa's struggle to reconcile racially based poverty, a legacy of apartheid, and attempts to conserve the country's unique and important biodiversity. We present an analysis of KwaDapha, a small village in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal, a protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in terms of the capability approach. Despite South Africa's strong human rights orientation, we show that the freedom, or agency, of local users and inhabitants to achieve doings and beings according to their own values and norms, is constrained by state-led conservation management at KwaDapha. We suggest that the intellectual cause of this failure might lie in the conflation of two distinct concepts: human rights and the capability approach, in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park's predominantly market-based operationalization of sustainable development.
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