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Sharing Benefits From the Coast
Rights, resources and livelihoods
R WYNBERG & M HAUCK (EDITORS)
Coastal resources are vital for communities in developing countries, many of whom live in abject poverty. These resources also hold significant value for a number of different sectors of the economy, such as mining, fisheries, forestry and tourism, many of which supply expanding global consumer markets. Although these activities provide opportunities for economic and income growth, global patterns indicate growing levels of economic inequality between custodians of these resources and those exploiting them, as well as an increasing incidence in absolute levels of poverty. ‘Benefit-sharing’ has emerged as a popular term to describe interventions to redress inequalities, and thus alleviate poverty. Drawing from empirical research in coastal communities across South Africa and Mozambique, this book provides cutting-edge analyses of and new conceptual approaches to these issues. It aims to enhance an understanding of why benefits are distributed in the way they are, the main blockages preventing greater equity, and strategies for more equitable benefit-sharing. The findings have relevance and application for coastal livelihoods, rural governance and resource sustainability, not only in these countries but across the world in a context where community rights are increasingly undermined by land-grabbing, unequal power relations and externally driven development interventions.
Victoria Mxenge Housing Project, ThE
Building houses and communities through social activism and pedagogy
S ISMAIL
At the beginning of South Africa’s democratic change in 1994, a group of 30 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town started the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project. This once-desolate piece of land is now a thriving, sustainable community of more than 5 000 houses. Through the stories of these women, the author describes how they became their own providers in a context where the state did not live up to its social responsibilities. She presents the value of ‘citizen learning’ in the developing world and highlights the importance of local and traditional knowledge, experiential learning, and learning in an informal context. This book taps into the growing international interest in social learning in the context of social movements.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Salma Ismail is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She convenes and teaches on the Adult Education programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
SUITABLE FOR
Academics and students in the disciplines of adult education, development, social movements and gender studies; NGOs involved in housing; social activists and development practitioners.
978 1 77582 006 2 978 1 77582 164 9 978 1 77582 165 6 2014
206 PAGES
ZAR R347.00 ZAR R324.00 ZAR R200.00
                  978 1 91989 552 9 978 1 77582 168 7 978 1 48511 563 2 978 1 77582 169 4
2015
192 PAGES
ZAR R248.00 ZAR R231.00 ZAR R231.00 ZAR R231.00
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