The Environmental Crunch in Africa Growth Narratives vs. Local Realities /
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| Shrnutí: | XVIII, 324 p. 21 illus., 3 illus. in color. text |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77131-1 |
| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj Kniha |
Obsah:
- Introduction: Promise and peril in Africa: growth narratives vs. local environmental problems; Jon Abbink
- Chapter 1: Cash for cashews: does it add up?; Margaret Buckner
- Chapter 2: Trade-offs between crop production and other benefits derived from wetland areas: short-term gain versus long-term livelihood options in Ombeyi watershed, Kenya; Serena A.A. Nasongo, Charlotte de Fraiture & JB Okeyo-Owuor
- Chapter 3: Agriculture, ecology and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: trajectories of labour-saving technologies in rural Benin; Georges Djohy, Honorat Edja & Ann Waters-Bayer
- Chapter 4: Is growing urban-based ecotourism good news for the rural poor and biodiversity conservation? A case study of Mikumi, Tanzania; Stig Jensen
- Chapter 5: Losing the plot: environmental problems and livelihood strife in developing rural Ethiopia. Suri agro-pastoralism vs. state resource use; Jon Abbink
- Chapter 6: Cameroon's Western Region: an environmental disaster in the making?; Moses K. Tesi
- Chapter 7: The impasse of contemporary agro-pastoralism in central Tanzania: environmental pressures in the face of land scarcity and commercial agricultural investment
- Tadasu Tsuruta
- Chapter 8: Down by the riverside: cyclone-driven floods and the expansion of swidden agriculture in southwestern Madagascar; Jorge Llopis
- Chapter 9: Challenging impediments to climate change initiatives in Greg Mbajojirogu’s Wake Up Everyone; Norbert Oyibe Eze
- Chapter 10: Future in culture? Globalizing environments in the lowlands of Southern Ethiopia; Echi Christina Gabbert. .