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The Cape Flats Nature book “Growing together – thinking and practice of urban nature conservators” is a culmination of eight years experience in the partnership with input from other agencies and individuals. It is a book based on stories and experiences in Cape Town but it is relevant for urban nature conservators anywhere in the world. Conservation management in the context of urban poverty is a complex and rich field and the book explores this, linking current development theory with local stories and case studies.
You can download and read the various chapters at your own leisure here:
1. Chapter 1
Growing Systems: the quest of the urban conservator
This introduces the field and provides a motivation for, and vision of, urban nature onservation. It links these to some of the current thinking around adaptive collaborative management, and reviews some of the challenges.
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Growing Systems: the quest of the urban conservator
This introduces the field and provides a motivation for, and vision of, urban nature onservation. It links these to some of the current thinking around adaptive collaborative management, and reviews some of the challenges.
2. Chapter 2
Growing Vision: mapping systems and growing vision through cycles of reflection and adaptation
This explores methods of formulating a vision for a nature conservation site and plotting an operational plan to achieve this. It covers the initial process of assessing the social ecological systems that flow through and around a nature conservation site and gives suggestions for an ongoing process of action learning with all community collaborators.
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3. Chapter 3
Growing our Team: leadership, learning and collaboration
This investigates building leadership within and around our site, equipping ourselves with skills and strategies to facilitate collaborative management.
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4. Chapter 4
Growing Communities: creating conditions for sustainability through community partnerships
This covers laying the groundwork to enable adaptive collaborative management of the site, adding value to a community through the site and creating community partnerships for projects aimed at enriching the community.
5. Chapter 5
Growing passion: creating eco-literate communities
This explores ways to transform consciousness and create a deep awareness of our interdependence with nature.
6. Chapter 6
Growing nature: priorities for managing the natural systems on our sites
This deals with identifying priorities for conserving the natural systems at a site in partnership with the community and ways of working in partnerships around challenges.
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7. Chapter 7
Growing the web: creating and nurturing a network of partnerships
This looks at extending our partnerships into different organisational and institutional levels to create a strong web of interconnection that deepens and strengthens our work.
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Last pages
The last pages include the conclusion, recommended resources, picture credits, information about the authors and the index.
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