Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs
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Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-11
Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Social Science categories.
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.
Shaping The African Savannah
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-02
Shaping The African Savannah written by Michael Bollig 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 2020-07-02 with History categories.
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Pastoralist Resilience To Environmental Collapse In East Africa Since 1500
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Author : Gufu Oba
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Pastoralist Resilience To Environmental Collapse In East Africa Since 1500 written by Gufu Oba and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Conservation Markets And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: James Currey
Release Date : 2023-05-16
Conservation Markets And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa written by Michael Bollig and has been published by James Currey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Focuses on a key issue of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?
Climate Change Epistemologies In Southern Africa
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Author : Jörn Ahrens
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Climate Change Epistemologies In Southern Africa written by Jörn Ahrens and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Science categories.
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.
African Futures
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-02-28
African Futures written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-28 with Social Science categories.
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.
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
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A Tapestry Of African Histories
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Author : Nicholas K. Githuku
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-10-18
A Tapestry Of African Histories written by Nicholas K. Githuku and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Political Science categories.
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.
From Divided Pasts To Cohesive Futures
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Author : Hiroyuki Hino
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-22
From Divided Pasts To Cohesive Futures written by Hiroyuki Hino 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 2019-08-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.
Racism And Human Ecology
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Author : Katharina Loeber
language : en
Publisher: Böhlau Köln
Release Date : 2019-01-21
Racism And Human Ecology written by Katharina Loeber and has been published by Böhlau Köln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with History categories.
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".