| Description |
xvi, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
African issues |
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African issues.
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| Contents |
Environmental change & policy : challenging received wisdom in Africa / Melissa Leach & Robin Mearns -- Range management science & policy : politics, polemics & pasture in southern Africa / Ian Scoones -- Soil Erosion, animals & pasture over the longer term : environmental destruction in southern Africa / William Beinart -- Desertification : narratives, winners & losers / Jeremy Swift -- Wildlife, pastoralists & science : debates concerning Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania / Daniel Brockington & Katherine Homewood -- Rethinking the forest-savanna mosaic : colonial science & its relics in West Africa / James Fairhead & Melissa Leach -- Dryland forestry : manufacturing forests & farming trees in Nigeria / Reginald Cline-Cole -- Soil erosion : breaking new ground Michael Stocking -- Irrigation, erosion & famine : visions of environmental change in Marakwet, Kenya / W.M. Adams -- Land & capital : blind spots in the study of the "resource-poor" farmer / Mary Tiffen -- Cultural construction of environmental policy : paradigms & politics in Ethopia / Allan Hoben |
| Analysis |
Africa |
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Environment |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p209-230. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index |
| Subject |
Biodiversity conservation -- Africa.
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Environmental degradation -- Africa.
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Environmental management -- Africa.
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Environmental policy -- Africa.
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Natural resources -- Africa.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 -- Environmental conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
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| Author |
Leach, Melissa.
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Mearns, Robin.
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International African Institute.
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| LC no. |
96049147 |
| ISBN |
0435074075 (Heinemann : cloth) |
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0435074083 (Heinemann : paper) |
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0852554095 (James Currey : paper) |
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0852554109 (James Currey : cloth) |
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