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| Author | : Tom Slaymaker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Agricultural conservation |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tom Slaymaker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Agricultural conservation |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Wilson Akpan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2017-06-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1443878618 |
Based on case studies in Southern Africa, West Africa and East Africa, this book revisits some of the dilemmas and paradoxes associated with the development, management and utilisation of environmental resources, as well as lacklustre official handling of climate change-related challenges, in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the subject of natural resource exploitation, in particular, the book revisits scholarly debates and specific practices around compensation, benefit- and burden-sharing, local participation and space-place dynamics. It highlights fundamental ambiguities in the ways the dominant discourses and policy responses have been framed and mobilised, and examines epistemic and ideational incongruences that have hobbled and sometimes negated the effectiveness of otherwise well-intentioned interventions. On climate change, the book revisits debates around the vulnerability-assets nexus with regard to mitigation and adaptation, as well as the intersection of climate information and livelihoods in agro-based settings. The contradictions, gaps and limitations of climate change policies and strategies in different regions are re-examined based on new data. In the last few years, the Environment and Natural Resources Working Group of the South African Sociological Association (SASA) has intensified efforts to go beyond the annual SASA Congresses and the production of journal articles, in making the research agendas of its members more visible to the global scholarly and policy community. This book is one result of such efforts. It calls for a constant questioning of orthodoxies and the promotion of ethnographically sensitive and epistemologically nuanced scholarly and policy approaches to developmental challenges in Africa, especially in relation to environmental resources and environmental change.
| Author | : Michelle Pressend |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Natural resources |
| ISBN | : 9781920216139 |
| Author | : Aercio S. Cunha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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| Author | : Alan Thomas |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
| ISBN | : 0415189632 |
Global Environmental Change Programme.
| Author | : Paul Andre DeGeorges |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : George Benneh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing increasing pressures on its natural environments, economics, and societies. Financial burdens, difficulties with economic reform, problems of social transformation and of rapidly growing cities, combined with loss of productive topsoil, deforestation, and scarce or poor-quality fresh water, are among the major contributors. While global climatic change and other physical phenomena may play a part, the present environment is largely a result of the interactions between people, natural resources, and cultural development. This book focuses on sustainable environmental and resource management development in the Sub-Saharan Africa region in the medium-term future. The first part analyses the driving force of environmental change in the region, including persistent poverty, population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and energy production and consumption. The second part takes up issues central to sustainability, including agriculture, on which the majority of people still depend for their livelihood. Among the conclusions, the authors stress the need for policies aimed at poverty eradication and equitable economic development to counter unsustainable use of natural resources and to reduce vulnerability to environmental deterioration, economic decline, and hazards. Much greater cooperation between the North and South--and a more open system or trade in particular--are recommended for better resource management. And finally, a strengthening of environmental institutions and environmental education at all levels is advised.
| Author | : Matthias Basedau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called "resource curse" is said to materialize. By assessing empirical evidence on sub-Saharan Africa it concludes that the resource curse theory fails to sufficiently explain why and how several countries have not or only partly been affected by the "curse". Theoretically, the paper argues that whether or not natural resources are detrimental to a country's socio-economic and political development depends on a number of contextual variables, divided into country-specific conditions and resource-specific conditions (type, degree/level of abundance and dependence, resource revenue management, involved companies etc.). Methodologically, a future research agenda needs to examine the complex interplay of these contextual variables by adding sophisticated comparative research designs, especially "small and medium N" comparisons, to the tool box which has been widely confined to the juxtaposition of "large N" and country case studies.
| Author | : Carol Chi Ngang |
| Publisher | : Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-05 |
| Genre | : Law and economic development |
| ISBN | : 9781032049076 |
The natural resource and right to development dilemma / Serges Djoyou Kamga and Carol Chi Ngang -- Sustainable right to development governance of natural resources in Africa / -- Carol Chi Ngang -- Loss, anguish and postponement: The story of African development, natural resource ownership and the paradox of waiting / Isaac Shai -- Rationale for Africa's 'legitimate' ownership of her natural resources / Daphine Kabagambe Agaba -- Resource constitutionalism for socio-economic development in Africa's petrostates: Re-imagining prior-informed consent -- Aaron Olaniyi Salau -- Peoples' right to natural resources in Africa and state sovereignty: A quest for equilibrium / Jacob Osutongun Abiodun -- Colonial extraction of natural resource and the impact on the right to development in Africa / Annelie de Man and Carol Chi Ngang -- Issues of sovereignty over natural resources in Africa / Faith Kabata -- Rethinking natural resource ownership and the realisation of the right to development for indigenous peoples in Africa / Esther E. Njieassam -- Ownership of natural resources and the right to development for African indigenous peoples / Ebun Abolarin -- Assessing the impact of water policies and practices on the RTD within the tourism industry in Africa / Furaha Joy Sekai Saungweme -- Sustainable Development Goals and the bumpy road to 2030 in Ethiopia: The challenges of land grabbing / Jean-Claude N. Ashukem -- Freedom from want and the constitutional right to development in Ethiopia: Urban Productive Safety Net Programme-The case of Addis Ababa / Tsion T. Dechassa and Gedion G. Jalata -- Corporate social responsibility and the right to development in local communities: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo / Muyamba Mangu and Serges Djoyou Kamga -- Laws on natural resources ownership in Ghana: A perceived hindrance to community development / Bridget Kafui Anthonio-Apedzi -- Policy implications of the right to development through the Mining Charter of South Africa / Mofihli Teleki -- Impact of artisanal and small scale gold mining on livelihood in Mutasa District of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe / Cephas Mandihrawe -- Conclusion. Towards a resilient development future in Africa / Carol Chi Ngang.
