Going Back to the Roots: Ubuntu and Just Conservation in Southern Africa

Mabele, MathewBukhi; Krauss, JudithE; Kiwango, Wilhelm A.

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_33_21

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“…The participants talked about proactive, participatory and inclusive (in gender and age) community governance systems, where leaders would lead by example, based on local cultures and ‘original’ value systems. The idea of living ‘unified in diversity’ echoes the philosophy of Ubuntu anchored in the ethical principle of promoting life through mutual care and sharing between and among humans and nonhumans (Mabele et al, 2022). It advocates for diversification and holism, the integration of multiple land uses, including tourism and farming.…”

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Using anticipation to unveil drivers of local livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: A call for more environmental justice

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1. Calling on the concept of environmental justice in its distributive, procedural and recognition dimensions, we implemented a coelaborative scenario building approach to explore sustainable livelihoods pathways in four sites belonging to two Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa.2. Grounded on participation and transdisciplinarity, as a foundation for decolonised anticipatory action research, we aimed at stimulating knowledge exchange and providing insights on the future of local livelihoods engaging experts living within these TFCAs.3. Our results show that wildlife and wildlife-related activities are not seen as the primary drivers of local livelihoods, despite the focus and investments of dominant stakeholders in these sectors. Instead, local governance and land use regulations emerged as key drivers in the four study sites. The state of natural resources, including water, and appropriate farming systems also appeared critical to sustain future livelihoods in TFCAs, together with the recognition of indigenous culture, knowledge and value systems.

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Using anticipation to unveil drivers of local livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: A call for more environmental justice

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“…However, in emerging markets, consumers willing to accept new ideas and experiences are not automatically insensitive to prices. They may be open to experimenting with new products but their cultural inclinations to ethos, such as Ubuntu, restrain them from being outright extravagant (Mabele et al, 2022).…”

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Personality traits, money attitudes and consumer decision‐making styles as predictors of investment products choice in South Africa

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Quaye

Horvey

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J of Consumer Behaviour

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This study examines how personality traits and money attitudes influence consumers' decision‐making styles when purchasing investment products in South Africa. A sample of 269 South Africans completed the research questionnaire, which assessed their extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, money power/prestige, money retention/time, money quality, info‐mising, extending, and tax‐free investment purchase decision. Also, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling approaches were used to analyze the survey data. The results suggest that personality traits and money attitudes significantly impact consumer decision‐making regarding tax‐free investment products. However, the relationships between extraversion and money power/prestige and between info‐mising decision styles and tax‐tree investment purchase decisions were found to be negative. Cluster analysis revealed three distinct segments based on the characteristics of respondents and their drive for investment: strong conscientiousness investors, status‐driven investors, and introverted investors. Marketing professionals and investment firms can use the study findings on consumer traits and money attitudes to improve marketing effectiveness in an organisation. Practically, extensive information processing has a fundamental bearing on investment decision‐making in emerging markets. Extraversion and conscientiousness personality traits and money attitudes must be taken into consideration by investment products marketers and practitioners in marketing practice.

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“…Although received enthusiastically by scholars, convivial conservation has also been critiqued by some who highlight the need to address some practical issues and gaps (Ampumuza 2022;Bocci 2022;van Bommel and Boonman-Berson 2022;Kiwango and Mabele 2022;Mabele et al 2022). They point out that if conservation policy and science are to be genuinely transformative, convivial conservation should be explicit and proactive in addressing injustices grounded in scientific knowledge from the Global North (Ampumuza 2022).…”

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“…There is a call for a sharper focus on promoting locally derived initiatives based on local practices, knowledge, and legal systems (Bocci 2022). Mabele et al (2022) further highlight the need to devolve decision-making power to local people. They also fundamentally question the promotion of conservation areas to derive the radical and equitable alternatives to which convivial conservation aspires.…”

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“…Diverse approaches to forest and nature conservation have been adopted to curb the harmful effects of activities that contribute to deforestation and forest degradation, from traditional conservation policies that enforce strict regulations and laws to people-oriented policies (Jeanrenaud 1999;Mabele et al 2022). Nature conservation arose during the European colonial project, which conserved nature for purposes such as hunting in colonised Africa and other parts of the world (Prendergast and Adams 2003).…”

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Tackling Conflicts, Supporting Livelihoods: Convivial Conservation in the Campo Ma'an National Park

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Ramcilovic‐Suominen²,

Nchanji³

et al. 2023

Conservat Soc

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Going Back to the Roots: Ubuntu and Just Conservation in Southern Africa

Cited by 25 publications

References 37 publications

Using anticipation to unveil drivers of local livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: A call for more environmental justice

Using anticipation to unveil drivers of local livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: A call for more environmental justice

Personality traits, money attitudes and consumer decision‐making styles as predictors of investment products choice in South Africa

Tackling Conflicts, Supporting Livelihoods: Convivial Conservation in the Campo Ma'an National Park

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