Clara Bocchino
North West University Potchefstroom, Law, Department Member
- University of Pretoria, Animal and Wildlife Sciences, Department Memberadd
- Environmental History, International Environmental Law, International Law and Global Justice (in Law/International Law), Environmental Law and Human Rights, Rural Development, Sustainable Rural Development, and 68 moreOne Health, Emerging Infections One Health Ecohealth Zoonoses, International Relations, Security, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Science Communication, Environmental Education, Human-wildlife conflicts, Peace, Conflict, Freedom, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Human Rights, Minority Rights, International Law, International organizations, Diplomacy, Nationalism, Community Resilience, Disaster risk reduction, Participatory Decision Making, Disaster Culture, Rural Livelihood Strategies, Climate Change, Food Security, Governance, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Small scall Irrigation, Development Policies and Strategies, Institutions, Agricultural extension, Disaster Education, Gender Issues, Disaster Management, Children and Natural Hazards, Training, Resilience, Scenarios, Scenario Building, Scenario planning, Alternative Futures, Futures Studies, Foresight, Cla, Causal Layered Analysis, Archetypes, Manoa, Public International Law, International Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, Transitional Justice, Environmental Law, WTO, Trade Policy, Colonialism, Comparative Advantage, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Trade Law, Agricultural Law, Political Economy, Migrations, and Postcolonial Studiesedit
- Dr. Clara Bocchino is an independent researcher, who has dedicated her professional life to the study for Transfronti... moreDr. Clara Bocchino is an independent researcher, who has dedicated her professional life to the study for Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa as driver for sustainable socio-economic development. Her first research visit to Zimbabwe at the end of 2001 introduced her not only to the role of Community Based Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Use, but to a new phenomenon in the region: the establishment of Peace Parks in the form of Transfrontier Conservation Areas. Since then, she has specialised in this field through a Master in Environmental Management at the University of Nottingham (UK) and a PhD in Human Geography (Environmental Quality and Regional Economic Development) on the impact of TFCAs on existing socio-economic cross-border networks, using the Great Limpopo TFCA as a case study. In the past decade, she has worked both as a researcher and as consultant in the Southern African Region to support the good governance and sustainability of regional TFCAs, and has contributed to the study of TFCAs as complex socio-ecological systems in multi-disciplinary contexts including Disaster Risk Reduction, One Health, and law. She has coordinated for 3 years the GTLFCA Chapter of the Animal and Human Health for Environment and Development Network and the SADC participation at the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress. She has worked with a selected team of regional legal experts to create the first International Law Legal Register for Conservation and Development in SADC TFCAs, focussed on South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. More recently, she has created the first Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the SADC TFCA Programme, a unique multi-scalar Medit
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Research Interests: Earth Sciences, Landscape Archaeology, Community Resilience, Transboundary Protected Areas, Disaster risk reduction, and 8 moreParticipatory Decision Making, Disaster Culture, One Health, Community Networks, Transfrontier Conservation Areas, Community Boundaries, Multidisciplinarity In Archaeology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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Research Interests: Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, International Relations, Development Studies, Intelligence Studies, and 8 morePolitics, Electoral Systems, Good Governance, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Management, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Areas, and Land Planning
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Research Interests: Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, International Relations, Development Studies, Intelligence Studies, and 8 morePolitics, Electoral Systems, Good Governance, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Management, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Areas, and Land Planning
Sustainable development was introduced by the defunct World Commission of Environment and Development, led by the then Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlo Brundtland, in its report to the United Nations entitled: Our common future. This... more
Sustainable development was introduced by the defunct World Commission of Environment and Development, led by the then Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlo Brundtland, in its report to the United Nations entitled: Our common future. This was in 1987, and the Commission sought to present the UN with clear suggestions for the future, if indeed there was to be one. The title of the report was, in itself, highly innovative as it implied the understanding that the future belongs to everyone on this planet, thus everybody must contribute towards ensuring it.
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For various reasons, Southern Africa may be considered the playground as well as the thinking tank for many theories and practices in the natural resources management field. History has contributed to reshape conservation practices... more
For various reasons, Southern Africa may be considered the playground as well as the thinking tank for many theories and practices in the natural resources management field. History has contributed to reshape conservation practices through colonial times, and recent wars have led to the relocation of people from their homelands and the appropriation by people of previously protected areas due to socio-economic pressures. Contemporary practices stemming from sustainable development have not yielded the expected results in resolving critical socio-economic stresses that impact on environmental health. Furthermore, human health has deteriorated in remote rural areas due to the failures of governance systems and the perpetration of non-participatory models for natural resources management, especially conservation. This paper seeks to explore how two relatively new approaches, Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health, can together tap into the theoretical and practical gaps left by previou...
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For various reasons, Southern Africa may be considered the playground as well as the thinking tank for many theories and practices in the natural resources management field. History has contributed to reshape conservation practices... more
For various reasons, Southern Africa may be considered the playground as well as the thinking tank for many theories and practices in the natural resources management field. History has contributed to reshape conservation practices through colonial times, and recent wars have led to the relocation of people from their homelands and the appropriation by people of previously protected areas due to socio-economic pressures. Contemporary practices stemming from sustainable development have not yielded the expected results in resolving critical socio-economic stresses that impact on environmental health. Furthermore, human health has deteriorated in remote rural areas due to the failures of governance systems and the perpetration of non-participatory models for natural resources management, especially conservation. This paper seeks to explore how two relatively new approaches, Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health, can together tap into the theoretical and practical gaps left by previous paradigms in order to instill a sustainable development approach that can benefit both people and natural resources in remote and poor rural areas.
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In the plethora of applications of commons theory, the rise of cultural commons as a specific research field reflects the acknowledgment that various aspects come together when we try to analyze relationships in a given physical or... more
In the plethora of applications of commons theory, the rise of cultural commons as a specific research field reflects the acknowledgment that various aspects come together when we try to analyze relationships in a given physical or virtual context. As pointed out in the first ...
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By Clara Bocchino Transfrontier Conservation was born out of a practical realisation that the natural environment is a physical continuum, the boundaries of which are determined by geology, hydrogeology and climate, rather than by human... more
By Clara Bocchino Transfrontier Conservation was born out of a practical realisation that the natural environment is a physical continuum, the boundaries of which are determined by geology, hydrogeology and climate, rather than by human decision-making. For those scholars who have always looked at conservation, particularly in southern Africa, as the realisation of romantic and naturalistic perceptions (1), the evolution of transfrontier conservation has represented its culmination with all the advantages and disadvantages it implies (2). In southern Africa, a war-torn region until the mid 1990s with a history of fortress conservation that functioned on the basis of exclusion of rural indigenous communities from any use of natural resources, the concept of transfrontier conservation was promoted as a pathway to peace, cooperation and development between the new constitutional state of law in the region.
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This is the report of the Stream on 'Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of protected and conserved areas', at the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress, held in Sydney Australia. I was a co-organiser of the... more
This is the report of the Stream on 'Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of protected and conserved areas', at the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress, held in Sydney Australia.
I was a co-organiser of the Transboundary Conservation session and co-rapporteur.
I was a co-organiser of the Transboundary Conservation session and co-rapporteur.