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Accepted Paper:
Ecological refuges: rereading environmental vanguardism literature
Mauricio Jesus Sergio Chipatime
(Eduardo Mondlane University)
Marlino Mubai
(Universidade Eduardo Mondlane)
With growing awareness of climate change impacts, ecological refuges are increasing becoming an academic discussion in the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. Taking the Park as case study, this paper highlights the complexity of ecological refuges issues in the context of environmental activism.
Paper long abstract:
With growing awareness of climate change impacts, ecological refuges are increasing becoming an academic discussion in the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. Taking Limpopo Nacional Park as case study, this paper highlights the complexity of ecological refuges issues in the context of environmental activism. It contends that environmental activism represents the resurgence of neocolonial approaches in which local perceptions and experiences are marginalized or ignored for the benefit of conservation and development as understood by the Westerners. Building from an extensive literature review, the paper analyses the reasons behind the displacement of local people to accommodate biodiversity conservation and economic interests. It concludes that forced relocations, loss of subsistence means and other challenges faced by local people in search of alternative forms of living put them under the category of ecological refuges.
Keywords: Limpopo National Park, politics, conservation, neocolonialism, communities, relocations.