Environmental change and African societies
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill
2019
[2020] |
| Colección: | Climate and Culture;
volume5. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655518806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Environmental Change and African Societies / Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermann
- Ideas
- To See or Not to See: on the ‘Absence’ of Climate Change (Discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit
- Perspectives on Climate Change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 / Vimbai Kwashirai
- Past
- Environmental and Climate Change in Africa: Global Drought and Local Environmental Infrastructure / Emmanuel Kreike
- Shamba Forestry in Colonial Kenya: Colonial Dominance or African Opportunity? / Ben Fanstone
- Present
- I’m Staying! Climate Variability and Circular Migration in Burkina Faso / Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
- More of the Same: a Gender Lens on Life in a Changing Climate in Sub-Saharan Africa / Joy Clancy
- Sustainable Mauritius? Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainable Development in a Small Island State in the Indian Ocean / Laura Jeffery
- Transformative Learning for Global Change? Reflections on the Wascal Master Programme in Climate Change and Education in the Gambia / Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambo
- Prospects
- Africa in Transition: What Role for the Environment? / Ton Dietz
- Africa’s High Modernism: Historical Ecologies of Climate Change and Hydrologies of Watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) / James C. McCann
- Increasing Urbanisation and the Role of Green Spaces in Urban Climate Resilience in Africa / Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo-Concha and Manfred Denich
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.
