FINDING THE COMMUNITY IN COMMUNITY-BASE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF NDUMO GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA
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Abstract
In  South  Africa  Community-Âbased  Natural  Resource  Management  (CBNRM)  has  recently  gained  popularity  as  the  dominant  approach  to  conservation  due  to  its  perceived  environmental  and  social  benefits  and  as  a  form  of  restitution  for  communities  that  were  forcibly  evicted  from  their  land  during  apartheid.  This  dissertation  investigates  the  disconnect  between  the  rhetoric  and  reality  of  CBNRM  in  South  Africa,  by  focusing  on  the  case  of  Ndumo  Game  Reserve.   It  aims  to  critically  evaluate  the  social  justice  and  economic  impacts  of  CBNRM  on  the  neighbouring  Mbangweni  and  Mathenjwa  communities.  It  argues  that  there  are  significant  tensions  between  the  community  focused  rhetoric  of  CBNRM,  the  predominantly  fortress-Âstyle  of  conservation,  and  the  neo-Âliberal  eco-Âtourism  venture  at  Ndumo  Game  Reserve.  I  conclude  that  CBNRM  at  Ndumo  is  largely  guided  by  western  conservation  and  economic  ideologies  and  driven  by  the  support  of  state  and  private  interests  while  alienating  local  people  from  their  land  and  its  management. Â
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".