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Misreading The African Landscape
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Author : James Fairhead
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-17
Misreading The African Landscape written by James Fairhead and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-17 with Nature categories.
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
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Author : James Fairhead
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1996-10-17
Misreading The African Landscape written by James Fairhead and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-17 with Nature categories.
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
The Ends Of The Earth
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Ends Of The Earth written by Donald Worster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.
The Lie Of The Land
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Author : Melissa Leach
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1996
The Lie Of The Land written by Melissa Leach and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Collections categories.
Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups. The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones. Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex Published in association with the International African Institute
Imperial Gullies
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Author : Kate Barger Showers
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2005
Imperial Gullies written by Kate Barger Showers and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Soil conservation categories.
Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were caused by colonial and postcolonial practices. The residents of Lesotho emerge as victims of a failed technology. Their efforts to mitigate or resist implementation of destructive soil conservation engineering works were thwarted, and they were blamed for the consequences of policies promoted by international soil conservationists since the 1930s. Imperial Gullies calls for an observational, experimental and, most importantly, a fully consultative and participatory approach to address Lesotho's serious contemporary problems of soil erosion. The first book to bring to center stage the historical practice of colonial soil science and a cautionary tale of western science in unfamiliar terrain it will interest a broad, interdisciplinary audience in African and environmental studies, social sciences, and history. "Showers shows how local people understood that colonial contour conservation methods and road building actually stimulated gully erosion, something colonial scientists failed to realize. Overall it is undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. Moreover it stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power."---Richard H. Grove, author of Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 Kate B. Showers is a visiting research fellow and senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, England. She has lived in rural Lesotho and has served as head of research, Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho.
Science Society And Power
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Author : James Fairhead
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-16
Science Society And Power written by James Fairhead and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-16 with Nature categories.
In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and educational practices engage with this. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy. The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science.
African Environmental Crisis
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Author : Gufu Oba
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-13
African Environmental Crisis written by Gufu Oba and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-13 with categories.
African Environmental Crisis explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse.
The Contested Lands Of Laikipia
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Author : Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-16
The Contested Lands Of Laikipia written by Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Social Science categories.
Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.
Green Land Brown Land Black Land
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Author : James McCann
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1999
Green Land Brown Land Black Land written by James McCann and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Africa categories.
This text confronts the alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining two centuries of historical evidence of environmental change. It presents African landscapes as created by humans, not as some idealized notion of Eden. Key topics covered include: the effects of population growth; disease; agricultural change; the state of natural resources; and the role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes. North America: Heinemann