THE LAND TENURE SYSTEM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ON ZIMBABWEAN SOCIETY

Abstract

Environmental wellbeing is an indespansable part of sustainability and sustainable development.While the socio.economic and physical effects of the land tenure system in Zimbabwe have been historically overlooked as important aspects of sustainable development through the various environmental in both pre-colonial and post- colonial Zimbabwe ,the papercritically challenges a recnsideration of the potential of these policies.Adopting both the historical and philosophical approach,it will attempt to establish the extent to which environmental indegenous thinking has been compatible with the successive land apportionment in Zimbabwe.This willll be achieved through a critical comparative analysisand juxtaposition the pre-colonial,colonial and post-colonial of the Zimbabwean natural environment.