Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa

Name: Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa
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ISBN: 9781402000461

ISBN-10: 1402000464

ISBN-13: 9781402000461

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Mohamed Abdel Rahim M. Salih

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The current obsession of social and natural scientists with globalisation has not been matched by equal interest in the study of the consequences of local environmental change on society. As a result, our attention has been drawn away from community and locality to global processes often indifferent to the reality of those at the receiving end of the social, economic, and political problems globalisation creates. Larger (global) synthesis obscures local reality, and imposes conditions often insensitive to local needs, resource management institutions, and production systems, even distorting them. The case studies presented in this book illustrate how environmental degradation has…

Book details

List price: $129.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 8/31/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.84" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface




Introduction: Elements of Local Environmental Change and Society




Human Health and Irrigation Development in Kenya




Choice and Use of Rural Water Supply Systems: Environmental and Socio-Cultural Dimension




Technology Change and Gender: Irrigated Agriculture and Peasant Women in Eastern Uganda




Agricultural Land Management for Sustainable Production, Swaziland




Price and Market Liberation Effect on Household Food Security: A Gender Sensitive Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Uganda




Structural Adjustment, Energy Crisis and Environment: A Comparative Gender Study of Rural and Urban Households




Air Pollution in Addis Ababa: The Predicament of "Chile Sefer"




Climate Change and Local Vulnerability



Notes on Contributors


Index