African environment and development : rhetoric, programs, realities /
Northern hemisphere scholars worry about bio-diversity in Africa whereas Southern environmentalists focus on poverty alleviation. This collection clarifies these opposing emphases and reveals how the suspicion of a Northern colonial agenda has to be taken seriously
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2003
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| Series: | King's SOAS studies in development geography
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Table of Contents:
- African environment and development : an introduction / B. Ikubolajeh Logan and William G. Moseley
- Ideology and power in resource management : from sustainable development to environmental security in Africa / B. Ikubolajeh Logan
- Environmental degradation and 'poor' smallholders in the west African Sudano-Sahel : global discourses local realities / William G. Moseley
- Grounding environmental narratives : the impact of a century of fighting against fire in Mali / Paul Laris
- War and the environmental effects of displacement in southern Africa (1970s-1990s) / Emmanuel Kreike
- Pesticides, politics and pest management : toward a political ecology of cotton in sub-Saharan Africa / Jim Bingen
- A local graft takes hold : the political ecology of commercial horticultural production in rural Mali / Stephen R. Wooten
- Risk positions and local politics in a Sahelian society : the Fulbe of the Hayre in central Mali / Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk
- Buying (into) and selling conservation among Maasai in southern Kenya / Jennifer E. Coffman
- Placing the local in the transnational : communities and conservation across borders in southern Africa / Rachel B. DeMotts
- '(S)hell in Nigeria' : the environmental impact of oil politics in Oganiland on Shell International / Phia Steyn
- Whither African environment and development? / William G. Moseley