Possibilities for a Hybrid Approach to Planning and Governance at the Interface of the Administrative and Traditional Authority Systems in Durban

Sim, Vicky; Sutherland, Catherine; Buthelezi, Sibongile; Khumalo, Duduzile

doi:10.1007/s12132-018-9355-2

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“…Communities differed significantly; perceptions of achieving good health, climate change, reducing poverty, and zero hunger through environmental conservation and growing trees differed. The benefits of trees in providing ecosystem services such as erosion control, water filtration and regulation, providing habitats for animals, and increasing urban biodiversity have been widely reported (FAO, 2016; Heusinkvelt, 2016; Sim et al, 2019), yet the findings from the study attest to the inadequacy of households' knowledge base relating to tree benefits or to ignorance (as seen in the significant differences due to different education levels). These survey results correspond with those from the FGDs, where differing views of tree benefits were expressed.…”

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“…Trees provide ecosystem services such as erosion control, water filtration, and filtration of urban pollutants; they furnish habitats for animals, act as carbon sinks, and increase biodiversity (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2016; Heusinkvelt, 2016). Furthermore, trees provide shade, wind protection, spaces for meetings (Shackleton et al, 2015; Sim et al, 2019), and green spaces, which can improve physical and mental health, thereby contributing to human wellbeing and enhanced human dignity (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2016). In addition, trees are a source of food in the form of fruit and nuts and support honey‐producing bees.…”

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An analysis of the perceived societal benefits of and threats from trees for the delivery of livelihoods and community development

Tsvuura

Mudhara

Mabhaudhi

2023

Plants People Planet

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Societal Impact Statement Understanding the perceptions of benefits and threats from trees is important for the livelihoods of communities. The study used focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a questionnaire survey of 226 households in the province of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. The findings showed that household socio‐economic factors such as gender and land tenure influenced perceptions of tree growing, and households that were involved in a tree restoration project viewed trees as contributing toward their livelihoods by reducing hunger. Hence there is a need to design strategies that promote socio‐economic inclusivity of all households and genders and promote programs that increase awareness of ecosystem services within communities. Summary Understanding the socio‐economic factors that shape the way households value and utilize natural resources is critical in developing nature‐based solutions. The study was aimed at understanding how the socio‐economic circumstances of households determined their perceptions of the role of trees in livelihood delivery. A case study of Buffelsdraai and Osindisweni communities was used; these sites are adjacent to a municipal landfill where a tree restoration project intended to mitigate the effects of climate change is being implemented, and some of the households are involved in this project. The study used focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a questionnaire survey of 226 households. It explored gender perspectives on the perceived benefits and threats of tree restoration. It analyzed the influence of households' economic characteristics and spatial configuration (the subdivisions of the landscape) to assess the impact of land tenure. The findings showed that gender influenced the perceptions that economic benefits can be derived from participating in the project. Households involved in the tree restoration project viewed trees as contributing to their livelihoods by reducing hunger. Households in peri‐urban settlements, permanently resident in the area, showed greater reliance on natural resources than those in informal settlements and rural areas. Such differences can be attributed to differences in land tenure. Hence, there is a need to design strategies and operations that promote socio‐economic inclusivity of all households and genders and reduce inequality. These findings are important for informing scaling to yield better climate change considerations and policies.

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An analysis of the perceived societal benefits of and threats from trees for the delivery of livelihoods and community development

Tsvuura

Mudhara

Mabhaudhi

2023

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“…Therefore it presents common ground between the logics of various municipal systems, such as those pertaining to urban infrastructure, essential service delivery and public space management (Moodley, 2019; Dorries, 2022). In particular, the system for levying property taxes, which is crucial to municipalities’ financial sustainability and a fundamental building block of their land use management systems, is resolutely moored in a dominium‐based understanding of property, in that public revenue is extracted from the easily identifiable owners of precisely demarcated plots of urban land (Sim et al ., 2018).…”

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PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa

Pieterse,

Coggin

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple worlds. This unduly narrows the lens through which governance actors perceive and mediate competing claims to urban space. In this article we engage this feature of property in the context of contestation over urban land in Durban, an intensely plural city of the global South. We focus on three sets of spatial practices that are, in different ways, in tension with municipal governance objectives in Durban to probe how social actors interface with property law through divergent logics and lexicons. We argue that a more hybrid legal conception of property is required to enable just and normatively hybrid governance of these (often competing) claims.

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“…Transitioning areas commonly have long histories of settlement (for various reasons), changes may also speak to processes of formalization, or indeed those of and loss. In several African contexts, establishment of houses alongside significant densification on land managed by traditional authorities is an important process (Mbatha and Mchunu, 2016;Sim et al, 2018;Bartels, 2020), including in one of our cases, Molweni.…”

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Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Meth¹,

Goodfellow²,

Todes³

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in South Africa and Ethiopia, this article draws out the epistemologies of researching African urban peripheries and presents a new conceptual framework. It offers a language for interpreting processes of peripheral development and change, highlighting five distinct but overlapping logics which we term speculative, vanguard, auto-constructed, transitioning and inherited. Rather than describing bounded peripheral spaces, we argue that these logics can co-exist, hybridize and bleed into each other in different ways in specific places and at different temporal junctures. Centring our methodological practices of comparative analysis, and privileging the voices of those living in urban peripheries, the article employs critical readings of urban scholarship before exploring how these five logics illuminate the complex processes of urban peripheral evolution and transformation. Formulating these logics helps to fill a lacuna in urban conceptualization with potential relevance beyond African contexts.

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Possibilities for a Hybrid Approach to Planning and Governance at the Interface of the Administrative and Traditional Authority Systems in Durban

Cited by 14 publications

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An analysis of the perceived societal benefits of and threats from trees for the delivery of livelihoods and community development

An analysis of the perceived societal benefits of and threats from trees for the delivery of livelihoods and community development

PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

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