Aridity, change and conflict in Africa
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13:
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Climate Shocks and Domestic Conflicts in Africa
Author: Yoro Diallo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2022-12-16
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper analyzes the interlinkages between climate shocks, domestic conflicts, and policy resilience in Africa. It builds on a Correlated Random Effect model to asess these interrelationships on a broad sample of 51 African countries over the 1990-2018 period. We find suggestive evidence that climate shocks, as captured through weather shocks, increase the likelihood of domestic conflicts, by as high as up to 38 percent. However, the effect holds only for intercommunal conflicts, not for government-involved conflicts. The effect is maginified in countries with more unequal income distribution and a stronger share of young male demographics. The results are robust to a wide set of sensitivity checks, including using various indicators of weather shocks and domestic conflicts, and alternative estimation techniques. The findings shed light on key policy resilience factors, including steadily improving domestic revenue mobilization, strengthening social protection and access to basic health care services, scaling up public investment in the agriculture sector, and stepping up anti-desertification efforts.
Pastoralism in Africa
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0857459090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
Middle Classes in Africa
Author: Lena Kroeker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 3319621483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class. Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 1077
ISBN-13: 0199569886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.
Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1351973673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them. It focuses on the savannahs of the Baringo-Bogoria basin, and the surrounding highlands of Kenya’s northern Rift Valley that form the social-ecological system of the specialised cattle pastoralists and niche agricultural farmers who occupy these semi-arid lands. Historical studies of resilience spanning the past two centuries are linked with analysis of current environmental challenges, and the ecological, social, economic and political responses mounted by local communities. The authors question whether the most recent challenges confronting the peoples of eastern Africa’s savannahs – intensified conflicts, mounting poverty driven by demographic pressures, and dramatic ecological changes brought by invasive species – might soon led to a collapse in essential elements of the specialised cattle pastoralism that dominates the region, requiring a re-orientation of the social-ecological system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
Handbook of Hydrology
Author: David R. Maidment
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1993-02-22
Total Pages: 1436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An all-inclusive reference covering all practical aspects of hydrology. Twenty-nine chapters in four major sections: I. Hydrologic Cycle; II. Hydrologic Transport; III. Hydrologic Statistics; IV. Hydrologic Technology. 500 illustrations.
Human origin sites and the World Heritage Convention in Africa – N° 33
Author: Nuria Sanz
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9230010812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses examples of artistic work in all media in order to show how contemporary artists have adapted their vision in a manipulation of modern materials to satisfy mankind's needs for spiritual satisfaction through art.
People and Animals in Holocene Africa
Author: International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference
Publisher: Africa Magna Verlag
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 3937248277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This publication is one of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (CAZ), which was held in Paris (France) 23rd-28th August 2010"--P. 7.
Shaping the African Savannah
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 110848848X
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