Just a short message to introduce myself as a new member of the GEP-ED list-serv: Bram Büscher from the Netherlands, working at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University Amsterdam - VU) the Netherlands for the faculty of social sciences as a Ph.D. candidate and the VU Centre for International Cooperation as a project officer.
Both my research and more practical work centre around issues of conservation-development / natural resource management. More specifically, being a political scientist by training, my research deals with the international politics and governance of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa, focussing on the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Area between South Africa and Lesotho as a case-study. In that, I would like to see how TFCAs create or change international environmental governance structures, what the role of discursive power is in this and how this all relates back to the political 'maneuverability' for actual conservation of nature and the linkage with development. My more practical work deals with projects on Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Indigenous Knowledge, Farmer Innovation, etc.
Most of my work is focussed on Africa, and at the moment I'm resident in South Africa for a year to do my fieldwork.
I look forward to the posts and discussions on the listserv!
Best wishes,
Bram Büscher
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Affiliated to the University of Pretoria
Resident in South Africa January 2005 January 2006 :
334 Farendenstreet, Arcadia, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa
Tel. (+27) (0)73 310 4911 (Mob) / (+27) (0)12 344 2678 (home)
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