Llewellyn Leonard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3791464 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Llewellyn Leonard |
| NOMBRES | Llewellyn |
| APELLIDO | Leonard |
| FIRMA | LEONARD L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6279-0373 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Constraints to Reflexive Governance of Sand Mining by State Institutions in Zimbabwe
Illegal sand mining continues to cause severe social and environmental degradation in Zimbabwe despite legal frameworks intended to regulate the sector. This qualitative case study of Harare Metropolitan Province examines constraints to the reflexive governance of sand mining by state institutions. Guided by the reflexive governance framework, the study employed semi-structured interviews with purposively selected informants, including government…
Uniting against a mining giant
Despite existing political ecology research on conflict and resistance, there is a gap of understanding in how class, race, and networking alliances are formed and sustained, and operate effectively. In the context of mining resistance, where communities often consist of diverse socioeconomic and racial groups, the dynamics of collaboration warrant investigation. Additionally, research is necessary on how networks are mobilized and empower reside…
Contested authority and community resistance in extractive contexts
Across the Global South, rural communities increasingly confront extractive pressures that disrupt local governance systems and provoke grassroots resistance. This paper examines the contested role of traditional leadership in the proposed Jindal iron-ore mine in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with farmers, residents, activists, and legal advocates, the study shows how customary authority has beco…
From mining consideration to mindful tourism in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Across the Global South, rural communities face the challenge of reconciling economic development with ecological sustainability, particularly in areas where extractive industries threaten to displace alternative development trajectories. There is limited literature that explores how extractive industries erode rural development economies. This paper investigates the potential of sustainable tourism as a viable pathway for rural regeneration in M…
Community-led development and community-based natural resource management
Rural Community Development is a course of action aimed at developing communities and improving living standards. If steered by community members, then community development can leverage social networks, strengthen community organizations and foster community wellbeing. This study, therefore, traces the legacies of traditional and colonial natural resources management and community development CD) endeavours to reflect on the causes of regional d…
Beyond Awareness and Enforcement
Illegal dumping is a significant environmental and public health challenge in South African townships. This study investigates the drivers of illegal dumping in Ngwelezana Township, KwaZulu-Natal, using a qualitative case study approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with municipal officials, waste workers, and community stakeholders, supplemented by field observations and document analysis. Qualitative content analysis i…
Local power dynamics of rural water supply in Bambili, Northwest Cameroon
Mining Extractivism, Climate Stress, and Water Injustice
In water-stressed regions of South Africa, the expansion of extractive industries is compounding the effects of climate change and poor governance, threatening local water security and socio-ecological resilience for hydrosocial justice. This chapter examines the proposed Jindal iron-ore mine in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal and its anticipated impact on water availability, quality, and governance. Drawing on in-depth interviews with farmers, residents,…
Investigating the Co-Management of Natural Resources
Co-managed protected areas globally provide economic and environmental benefits through an equal partnership with communities. However, the African context of natural resource co-management differs, necessitating further research. This paper examines if the co-management of iSimangaliso World Heritage Site's natural resources in South Africa leads to sustainable use. Qualitative research was conducted via semi-structured interviews and random sur…
Socio-environmental impacts of mineral mining and conflicts in Southern and West Africa
Mineral mining activities in Africa have long been associated with a myriad of socio-environmental impacts and conflicts, posing significant challenges to sustainable development and environmental justice. This paper explores the complex interplay between mineral mining, socio-environmental impacts, and conflicts in the Southern and West African region, with a focus on the imperative of reflexive governance for achieving just transitions and envi…
Examining local community socio-economic benefits from community forest programmes in Namibia
Although academic debates since the 1990s have focused on the outcomes of community forest management interventions these debates have not been widespread within the African context.Literature on a hybrid business model to enable socio-economic security for communities has generally been inadequate.This study examined the socio-economic benefits derived from the Okongo and Uukolonkadhi community forests in Namibia to better understand the local c…
Climate change, mining development and residential water security in the uMkhanyakude District Muncipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Academic research on mining and climate change and associated impacts on water resources particularly for the developing world has been limitedly explored. Climate change is expected to make water insecurity in rural areas more severe as weather patterns become unfavourable. The extent to which the mining sector is able to reduce its impact on water resources and adapt to climate change will have implications for host communities. This paper expl…
Farmers' Perception of Soil Erosion and Degradation and Their Effects on Rural Livelihoods in KwaMaye Community, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
KwaMaye community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has, for decades, suffered from severe environmental degradation partly due to soil erosion. Yet, no study has analysed farmers' perception of environmental challenges confronting them and their effects on local livelihoods. Focus group discussions were conducted with KwaMaye farmers selected through purposive and snowball sampling techniques. KwaMaye farmers argued that soil erosion is triggered …
Doing tourism in Southern Africa amid the coronavirus pandemic
The purpose of this paper is to ignite a conversation on the challenges of the ongoing ‘novel’ surrounding the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in the Southern Africa region. The global COVID-19 pandemic started with the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It is understood that different countries, regions and territories will have different, context-specific challenges in fighting the pandemic. These will differ from country to country …
Covid-19 impacts on tourism
Conservation, Land Conflicts, and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa
A Methodology for Examining Geotourism Potential at the Kruger National Park, South Africa
In contrast to Europe, Asia and South America where geotourism is actively pursued, geotourism activities in South Africa have not to-date been a focus of tourism products. The purpose of this paper is to propose a field methodology that can be used to assess the potential for geotourism development. Existing procedures to establish geotourism site potential are reviewed and a new methodology that accounts for more characteristics than currently …
The future looks empty’
Ecological Conflicts, Resistance, Leadership and Collective Action for Just Resilience
South Africa's adopted neoliberalism framework, since democracy, has spearheaded industrial development such as mining and has contributed to eroding civil society formations for environmental justice. Although civil society has acted against mining developments, such actions can be uncoordinated due to neoliberal development influences. Neoliberalism can work to reconfigure the geographies of environmental justice struggles contributing to a fra…
The Contribution of Geotourism to Social Sustainability
Sustainable Urban Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa
The important insights in this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners across Tourism, Geography, Urban Development and African Studies.
Subsistence farmers’ differential vulnerability to drought in Mpumalanga province, South Africa
This paper examines social differences and drought vulnerability among subsistence livestock farmers in Mpakeni, Mpumalanga province, South Africa. This paper asks, how do social differences between households and power relations shape vulnerability to drought? This is against the backdrop that parallel exposure to climatic risks does not translate to similar vulnerability among households residing in the same community. In-depth interviews were …
Industrial scientific expertise and civil society engagement
Although the significance of scientific expertise is often proposed and empirically illustrated in academic literature, it is still unclear how environmental expertise becomes authoritative, and how its legitimacy can be challenged. In order to understand the interplay between scientific expertise and civil society engagement, this paper examines how industrial scientific expertise has worked with surrounding communities and civil society to info…
An operational framework for communicating flood warnings to indigenous farmers in southern Nigeria
When Race and Social Equity Matters in Nature Conservation in Post-apartheid South Africa
Current academic literature examining race and nature conservation in South Africa has relied mainly on secondary data analysis while neglecting the voices of local communities. This article draws on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Empirical results are drawn from different cases to ex…
Mining Corporations, Democratic Meddling, and Environmental Justice in South Africa
During Apartheid, the mining industry operated without restraint and compromised the ecology, the health of mining workers, and local communities. The lines between the mining industry and government was often unclear with the former influencing government decisions to favour uncontrolled operations. Although new post-Apartheid regulations were designed to control negative mining impacts, the mining industry and the state still have a close relat…
Civil society response to industrial contamination of groundwater in Durban, South Africa
This paper seeks to map the extent to which civil society actors champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It examines the role of civil society actors in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in being able to perceive industrial risk and push local concerns in development processes. The paper draws on qualitative and empirical research for a local case study in Merebank, South Durban, to explore how civil society engaged to organize and res…
Traditional leadership, community participation and mining development in South Africa
Exploring the Impacts of Mining on Tourism Growth and Local Sustainability
Mining licenses in post‐apartheid South Africa are being granted by the ruling government in sensitive areas that are important tourism hubs and employment generators. Limited research has been conducted to understand mining impacts on protected environments and tourism sites. This paper will focus on the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site as a tourist attraction in Limpopo to shed light on how mining is impacting on the area and on tourism developme…
State Governance, Participation and Mining Development
Despite the advent of democracy witnessing government making considerable progress in developing the legal frameworks to manage mining development and include citizens in decision-making processes, this has largely been unsuccessful. Although it is known that the post-apartheid state may be ineffective in holding mining companies accountable for social and environmental abuse and engaging citizens in decision-making processes, it is unclear what …
Characterising civil society and its challenges in post-apartheid South Africa
Since South Africa’s transition to democracy, civil society has been considered a critical component of new inclusive “democratic” societies, acting to ensure human rights for all. Government and donor agencies require the incorporation of this sector within project documents and programmes. However, is civil society merely a loosely defined term used to satisfy the requirements of project proposals and interests of the state, donors and big busi…
Civil Society Leadership and Industrial Risks
This paper examines the ability of civil society leaders in Durban, South Africa to champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It presents viewpoints from key social actors at the Durban city level, including three local case sites, to examine civil society leadership capacity to achieve environmental justice by addressing grassroots concerns. It explores how leaders engage with other civil society actors and subsequent respons…
Ecological Conflicts, Resistance, Leadership and Collective Action for Just Resilience
South Africa's adopted neoliberalism framework, since democracy, has spearheaded industrial development such as mining and has contributed to eroding civil society formations for environmental justice. Although civil society has acted against mining developments, such actions can be uncoordinated due to neoliberal development influences. Neoliberalism can work to reconfigure the geographies of environmental justice struggles contributing to a fra…
The Contribution of Geotourism to Social Sustainability
The future looks empty’
Examining civil society social capital relations against mining development for local sustainability
South Africa presents a unique case for mining development and impacts on sustainability because the lines between the mining industry and the state are unclear and due to the increasing inequality between citizens. This questions the potential for citizens to hold mining industries (and government) accountable for environmental abuse. This paper examines the ability of civil society actors to take action against (coal) mining development by way …
Bridging social and environmental risks
Whereas anti-apartheid social movements engaged collectively against a repressive regime, especially in actions against social injustices, post-apartheid civil society has witnessed fragmentation when it comes to engaging jointly against neoliberal risks such as poor/no service delivery, privatisation, and environmental pollution. Civil society has not linked struggles into a coherent ideology to comprehensively challenge neoliberalism and associ…
Conservation, Land Conflicts, and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa
Civil society response to industrial contamination of groundwater in Durban, South Africa
This paper seeks to map the extent to which civil society actors champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It examines the role of civil society actors in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in being able to perceive industrial risk and push local concerns in development processes. The paper draws on qualitative and empirical research for a local case study in Merebank, South Durban, to explore how civil society engaged to organize and res…
Civil Society Leadership and Industrial Risks
This paper examines the ability of civil society leaders in Durban, South Africa to champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It presents viewpoints from key social actors at the Durban city level, including three local case sites, to examine civil society leadership capacity to achieve environmental justice by addressing grassroots concerns. It explores how leaders engage with other civil society actors and subsequent respons…
An other political ecology of civil society reflexiveness against urban industrial risks for environmental justice
The concerns of political ecology since its beginnings as a field have been predominantly set in rural areas with limited focus on urban industrial risks. Further, debates on the global South (often from Anglo‐American perspectives) have not fully appreciated the divergent and differentiated perceptions of urban risks and, therefore, everyday forms of resistance within civil society. Instead, work has mainly focused on civil society power relatio…
The Relationship Between the Conservation Agenda and Environmental Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The idealization of the natural environmental as a virtual garden of Eden during colonization and apartheid in South Africa has continued to influence mainstream conservationists focusing purely on nature – excluding environmental justice concerns. If issues of environmental justice are neglected, then biodiversity is also at risk. The paper draws on empirical analysis in Durban and Johannesburg with conservationists and environmental advocates t…
Reconsidering the ‘risk society theory’ in the South
This paper draws on the theoretical framework of German sociologist Ulrich Beck's ‘risk society theory’ of reflexiveness to assist in understanding civil society response to industrial risk in Durban, South Africa. The paper draws on qualitative research and presents viewpoints from key stakeholders at the city level and through a local case study. Following the case, an assessment of the ways in which the risk society concept is useful to examin…
The network society, power and the print media in post-apartheid South Africa
Although post-apartheid South Africa has witnessed constraints on press freedom by the ruling party, there is limited understanding of how media discourse is contested and constructed by diverse social actors. This article is interested in the extent to which various social actors in the Durban network society, such as civil society, corporations and the state, shape public information and perception in their own interests regarding environmental…
Participatory Democracy Against Industrial Risks
Under Apartheid, marginalised groups had limited power to influence decisions contributing to environmental injustices. Democracy witnessed civil society as ‘inclusive’ to engage in formal decision-making. This paper examines the ability of the state and industry to effectively implement formal participatory decision-making spaces, including the ability of civil society to engage in these spaces. This paper presents viewpoints from stakeholders i…
Characterising civil society and its challenges in post-apartheid South Africa
Since South Africa’s transition to democracy, civil society has been considered a critical component of new inclusive “democratic” societies, acting to ensure human rights for all. Government and donor agencies require the incorporation of this sector within project documents and programmes. However, is civil society merely a loosely defined term used to satisfy the requirements of project proposals and interests of the state, donors and big busi…
Exploring the Impacts of Mining on Tourism Growth and Local Sustainability
Mining licenses in post‐apartheid South Africa are being granted by the ruling government in sensitive areas that are important tourism hubs and employment generators. Limited research has been conducted to understand mining impacts on protected environments and tourism sites. This paper will focus on the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site as a tourist attraction in Limpopo to shed light on how mining is impacting on the area and on tourism developme…
State Governance, Participation and Mining Development
Despite the advent of democracy witnessing government making considerable progress in developing the legal frameworks to manage mining development and include citizens in decision-making processes, this has largely been unsuccessful. Although it is known that the post-apartheid state may be ineffective in holding mining companies accountable for social and environmental abuse and engaging citizens in decision-making processes, it is unclear what …
Examining civil society social capital relations against mining development for local sustainability
South Africa presents a unique case for mining development and impacts on sustainability because the lines between the mining industry and the state are unclear and due to the increasing inequality between citizens. This questions the potential for citizens to hold mining industries (and government) accountable for environmental abuse. This paper examines the ability of civil society actors to take action against (coal) mining development by way …
Bridging social and environmental risks
Whereas anti-apartheid social movements engaged collectively against a repressive regime, especially in actions against social injustices, post-apartheid civil society has witnessed fragmentation when it comes to engaging jointly against neoliberal risks such as poor/no service delivery, privatisation, and environmental pollution. Civil society has not linked struggles into a coherent ideology to comprehensively challenge neoliberalism and associ…
Mining Corporations, Democratic Meddling, and Environmental Justice in South Africa
During Apartheid, the mining industry operated without restraint and compromised the ecology, the health of mining workers, and local communities. The lines between the mining industry and government was often unclear with the former influencing government decisions to favour uncontrolled operations. Although new post-Apartheid regulations were designed to control negative mining impacts, the mining industry and the state still have a close relat…
When Race and Social Equity Matters in Nature Conservation in Post-apartheid South Africa
Current academic literature examining race and nature conservation in South Africa has relied mainly on secondary data analysis while neglecting the voices of local communities. This article draws on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Empirical results are drawn from different cases to ex…
Traditional leadership, community participation and mining development in South Africa
Sustainable Urban Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa
The important insights in this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners across Tourism, Geography, Urban Development and African Studies.
Subsistence farmers’ differential vulnerability to drought in Mpumalanga province, South Africa
This paper examines social differences and drought vulnerability among subsistence livestock farmers in Mpakeni, Mpumalanga province, South Africa. This paper asks, how do social differences between households and power relations shape vulnerability to drought? This is against the backdrop that parallel exposure to climatic risks does not translate to similar vulnerability among households residing in the same community. In-depth interviews were …
Industrial scientific expertise and civil society engagement
Although the significance of scientific expertise is often proposed and empirically illustrated in academic literature, it is still unclear how environmental expertise becomes authoritative, and how its legitimacy can be challenged. In order to understand the interplay between scientific expertise and civil society engagement, this paper examines how industrial scientific expertise has worked with surrounding communities and civil society to info…
An operational framework for communicating flood warnings to indigenous farmers in southern Nigeria
A Methodology for Examining Geotourism Potential at the Kruger National Park, South Africa
In contrast to Europe, Asia and South America where geotourism is actively pursued, geotourism activities in South Africa have not to-date been a focus of tourism products. The purpose of this paper is to propose a field methodology that can be used to assess the potential for geotourism development. Existing procedures to establish geotourism site potential are reviewed and a new methodology that accounts for more characteristics than currently …
The future looks empty’
Ecological Conflicts, Resistance, Leadership and Collective Action for Just Resilience
South Africa's adopted neoliberalism framework, since democracy, has spearheaded industrial development such as mining and has contributed to eroding civil society formations for environmental justice. Although civil society has acted against mining developments, such actions can be uncoordinated due to neoliberal development influences. Neoliberalism can work to reconfigure the geographies of environmental justice struggles contributing to a fra…
The Contribution of Geotourism to Social Sustainability
Doing tourism in Southern Africa amid the coronavirus pandemic
The purpose of this paper is to ignite a conversation on the challenges of the ongoing ‘novel’ surrounding the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in the Southern Africa region. The global COVID-19 pandemic started with the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It is understood that different countries, regions and territories will have different, context-specific challenges in fighting the pandemic. These will differ from country to country …
Covid-19 impacts on tourism
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