Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author DeGeorges, Paul Andre.

Title A Critical Evaluation of Conservation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (3416 pages)
text file
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Embedded Figures; List of Color Photos; List of Black and White Photos; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement; Introduction; Chapter One: Pre Colonial Sub-Saharan African Civilizations and Co-Evolution With Wildlife; Chapter Two: Traditional Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter Three: Colonialism and the Imposition of Western Wildlife Management Systems; Chapter Four: Imperialism, Independence and Freshwater Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter Five: Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Since ColonizationChapter Six: Habitat Degradation, Linked to Colonial/Post-Colonial Policies and Watering Points/Boreholes in Sub-Sahran Africa; Chapter Seven: Impacts of Dams on Conservation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter Eight: Mining Tropical, Costal Zones, Lessons From the Caribbean, Implications for East African Coral Reefs; Chapter Nine: Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) Programs -- The Way Forward for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter Ten: Cities and the ESA, Neo-Colonial Impacts on Sub-Saharan African ConservationChapter Eleven: Independence, Democracy, and Foreign Dependency, Impacts on Conservation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter Twelve: Subsidies, Free Trade, Structural Adjustment and Debt Relief in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Ompacts on Resource Exploitation; Chapter Thirteen: The Current and Future role of the Private Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, Resource Wars or NEPAD?; Chapter Fourteen: Suggested Roadmap for the Way Forward; Acronyms; Index.
Summary This book will serve as a historical reference, a technical document and as a basis for policy formulation. It is one of the first attempts in modern times to look at the big picture, both historically and currently, on the African sub-continent as it applies to conservation, development, human rights and foreign policy. These volumes contain twelve color photographs and fifteen black and white photographs.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Wildlife management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Wildlife management.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Wildlife conservation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Wildlife conservation.
Natural resources -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Management.
Natural resources.
Management.
Conservation of natural resources -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Conservation of natural resources.
Sustainable development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Sustainable development.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Reilly, Brian Kevin.
Other Form: Print version: DeGeorges, Paul Andre. A Critical Evaluation of Conservation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008 9780773450707
ISBN 9780773420373 (electronic book)
0773420371 (electronic book)