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All four parks studied here reflect histories that can be traced back to colonial times. These trajectories are furthermore not isolated in their geographical places but have been largely shaped by their inclusion and connections at the colonial and global levels. Among the conservation issues that came before biodiversity, two clearly emerge as recurrent issues across the three continents: water governance and forest protection. Today, all urban parks experience new development and extension in the form of environmental networks and ecological connectivity that try to both link the park with the concrete city, and combine the park with other ecological units at the built-up area and regional levels.
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The term “coloured” refers to people with a mixed racial inheritance. The use of racial categories in this book is understood as categories inherited and produced by colonial systems. Their use underscores not their objective significance but the resilience of these social classifications in shaping the history of national parks.
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Rodary, E., Bruno-Lézy, L., Landy, F., Morokawa, M., Swanepoel, J. (2018). The History of the Four Parks: Favouring or Protecting from Urban Growth, Different Successive Conservation Policies. In: Landy, F. (eds) From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8462-1_2
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