| Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa Contributor(s): Broch-Due, Vigdis (Editor), Schroeder, Richard A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9171064524 ISBN-13: 9789171064523 Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2000 Annotation: Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 333.715 |
| LCCN: 2001319204 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.56" W x 9.58" (1.44 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Development donors have supported thousands of environmental initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess these projects and conclude that environmental programmes constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study material from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that environmental programmes themselves often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty on the continent.Individual essays in the collection theorise specific forms of environmental intervention; the degree of historical discontinuity that exists between contemporary and past environmental policies and practices; the effect environmental programmes have had on localised systems of knowledge and value regimes; the strategies of accumulation that have been spun out of heavy donor and state investment in environmental programmes; and the numerous social, cultural and political-economic dislocations these initiatives have produced in African environments all across the continent. |