African Environments And Resources

Author : L. A. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113688095X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Environments and Resources written by L. A. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of Africa, the authors also provide to the evolution of the management of resources and then details a broadly defined ecosystem approach, in which major environmental resource issues are identified and addressed in the tropical rainforest, the Savannah dry-forest, the arid and semi-arid areas, the highlands, and the extra-tropical zones of Northern and Southern Africa. The book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of African environmental and resource-management problems and this reissue should be welcomed by students of Africa and of environmental resource management problems in general.

Author : Laurence A. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415584142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Author : Laurence A. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Environments and Resources written by Laurence A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurence A. Lewis
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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Author : Wilson Akpan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878618
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Environmental and Natural Resource Questions in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Wilson Akpan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on case studies in Southern Africa, West Africa and East Africa, this book revisits some of the dilemmas and paradoxes associated with the development, management and utilisation of environmental resources, as well as lacklustre official handling of climate change-related challenges, in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the subject of natural resource exploitation, in particular, the book revisits scholarly debates and specific practices around compensation, benefit- and burden-sharing, local participation and space-place dynamics. It highlights fundamental ambiguities in the ways the dominant discourses and policy responses have been framed and mobilised, and examines epistemic and ideational incongruences that have hobbled and sometimes negated the effectiveness of otherwise well-intentioned interventions. On climate change, the book revisits debates around the vulnerability-assets nexus with regard to mitigation and adaptation, as well as the intersection of climate information and livelihoods in agro-based settings. The contradictions, gaps and limitations of climate change policies and strategies in different regions are re-examined based on new data. In the last few years, the Environment and Natural Resources Working Group of the South African Sociological Association (SASA) has intensified efforts to go beyond the annual SASA Congresses and the production of journal articles, in making the research agendas of its members more visible to the global scholarly and policy community. This book is one result of such efforts. It calls for a constant questioning of orthodoxies and the promotion of ethnographically sensitive and epistemologically nuanced scholarly and policy approaches to developmental challenges in Africa, especially in relation to environmental resources and environmental change.

Author : L. A. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780203838914
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Environments and Resources written by L. A. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 The dry areas; Introduction; The deserts: myth and reality in environmental conditions; Important environmental processes in dry areas; Patterns of resource use in dry areas; 6 The savanna and dry-forest environments; Introduction; Climate; Other factors in the savanna and dry-woodland ecology; Farming and grazing in the savanna: an overview; East Africa: a case study of the savanna; Conclusion; 7 The highlands; Introduction; The highlands of eastern and central Africa; Characteristics of highland environments; Rural population in the highlands

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349735099
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environmental change; and policies for conservation and development. The volume looks closely at the details of rural resource use, access and control, the social institutions which shape this, and the effects on African environments. It is not possible to understand livelihoods in Africa - a central issue for all social and economic questions - without grasping the interplay between environmental change and the sustainability of rural livelihoods. The volume is groundbreaking in its detailed examination of this interplay, and its importance in grasping the roots of poverty and potential for its alleviation, and for its unique combination of natural and social science methods.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137066156
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environmental change; and policies for conservation and development. The volume looks closely at the details of rural resource use, access and control, the social institutions which shape this, and the effects on African environments. It is not possible to understand livelihoods in Africa - a central issue for all social and economic questions - without grasping the interplay between environmental change and the sustainability of rural livelihoods. The volume is groundbreaking in its detailed examination of this interplay, and its importance in grasping the roots of poverty and potential for its alleviation, and for its unique combination of natural and social science methods.

Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110700151X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Infrastructure in African History written by Emmanuel Kreike and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 : 9789280728712
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning 400-page Atlas is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment that provide scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. The observations and measurements of environmental change help gauge the extent of progress made by African countries towards reaching the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation, and should be of immense value to all those who want to know more about Africa and who care about the future of this continent.