This study coins the “reality-worldview” framework to examine park-community conflicts arising from the expediency to protect the environmental integrity of a South African national park from bio-invasion. The study used remote sensing data to investigate the state of vegetation cover along the northern fringes of the park and an adjacent communal grazing area to determine differences in plant based resource endowments between the two areas. The study also involved the discriminant analysis of survey responses from park officials and local communities regarding perceptions about the environmental impacts of Acacia mearnsii invasion, as well as how the species spreads and how the species can be controlled. The objective of the study was to assess park-community conflicts arising from initiatives to limit community access to park resources on the justification of the need to prevent the invasion of the park by A. mearnsii. The study concludes that even though uncontrolled movement of people and livestock creates the obvious danger of invasion of the park by the species, the extent to which the species is viewed as an environmental threat depends on the “worldviews” of the stakeholders, the bridging of which can only be achieved through negotiation, environmental awareness and education campaigns and provision of training in conflict resolution to the belligerents.

这项研究提出了“现实世界观”框架，以研究为保护南非国家公园的环境完整性免受生物入侵的权宜之计而引起的公园与社区之间的冲突。该研究使用遥感数据调查了公园北边缘和邻近的公共放牧区的植被覆盖状况，以确定这两个区域之间基于植物的资源end赋的差异。该研究还包括对公园官员和当地社区对金合欢树对环境影响的看法的调查回答的判别分析。入侵，以及物种如何传播以及如何控制物种。这项研究的目的是评估在防止A. mearnsii入侵公园的必要性的前提下，限制社区访问公园资源的举措引起的公园与社区之间的冲突。该研究得出的结论是，即使人和牲畜的不受控制的移动显然会造成物种入侵公园的危险，但将物种视为环境威胁的程度取决于利益相关者的“世界观”，即利益相关者之间的桥梁。这只能通过谈判，环境意识和教育运动以及向交战方提供解决冲突的培训来实现。