Document Abstract
Published:
2001
Your park, my poverty: the growth of greenlining in Africa
Effects of rapidly accelerating growth in African parks
This paper examines the rapidly accelerating growth in African parks and protected areas as a form of place-making with welcome and unwelcome human consequences.
The article finds that:
- there are various forms of human displacement (and de-placement) which accompany greenlining-the removal of humans from protected areas for other than scientific or touristic ends
- conservation refugees are largely invisible in the current literature on environnmental refugees. They are victims of exclusionary land use planning in natural landscapes and eco-regions where human habitation and extractive use are prohibited
- such refugees number conservatively in the millions and, very likely, consist disproportionately of people already displaced by other development projects
