Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351973673
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs written by Michael Bollig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them. It focuses on the savannahs of the Baringo-Bogoria basin, and the surrounding highlands of Kenya’s northern Rift Valley that form the social-ecological system of the specialised cattle pastoralists and niche agricultural farmers who occupy these semi-arid lands. Historical studies of resilience spanning the past two centuries are linked with analysis of current environmental challenges, and the ecological, social, economic and political responses mounted by local communities. The authors question whether the most recent challenges confronting the peoples of eastern Africa’s savannahs – intensified conflicts, mounting poverty driven by demographic pressures, and dramatic ecological changes brought by invasive species – might soon led to a collapse in essential elements of the specialised cattle pastoralism that dominates the region, requiring a re-orientation of the social-ecological system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848848X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the African Savannah written by Michael Bollig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

Author : Gufu Oba
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031482913
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500 written by Gufu Oba and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803261
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the African Savannah written by Michael Bollig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid Eden' came into being, how this 'last frontier' was construed, and how local pastoralists relate to the landscape. Putting the intricate and changing relations between humans, arid savannah grasslands and its co-evolving animal inhabitants at the centre of his analysis, this history of material relations, of power struggles between commercial hunters and wildlife, between wealthy cattle patrons and foraging clients, between established homesteads and recent migrants, conservationists and pastoralists. Finally, Bollig highlights how futures are being aspired to and planned for between the increasing challenges of climate change, global demands for cheap ores and quests for biodiversity conservation.

Author : Jörn Ahrens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000902366
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa written by Jörn Ahrens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation. Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695427
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471642
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Futures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Author : Nicholas K. Githuku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623945
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tapestry of African Histories written by Nicholas K. Githuku and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Author : Hiroyuki Hino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476600
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures written by Hiroyuki Hino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.

Author : Katharina Loeber
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
ISBN 13 : 3412503568
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism and Human Ecology written by Katharina Loeber and published by Böhlau Köln. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apartheid era in South Africa lasted more than 40 years. It was marked by political repression and the attempt to create a homogeneous "white South Africa", which meant excluding the non-white majority population. The establishment and maintenance of white supremacy in South Africa by colonialism and, since 1948, grand apartheid was not only the result of racist regulations and laws, but also followed a "scientific" logic to justify the resettlement and expulsion of South African blacks.The history of South Africa from 1948 to 1994 can also be seen as the history of a major society-spanning project; an attempt to build a "modern" state on the basis of racial segregation. This work investigates the factors that make it possible to stabilize a policy based on virtually impossible prerequisites over four decades: Ethnic categorization, territorial planning and "environmental protection measures".