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Human Impact on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa
Author: Michael B.K. Darkoh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1351756656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2003. Based on a blend of knowledge and perspectives from a variety of disciplines this volume examines the human-environment interaction in Africa, with a focus on the economic, social and political processes that generate environmental change and problems in this region. Currently there are controversies over and challenges to such concepts and issues as environment-human relationships, ecological resilience, decertification, sustainable development, globalization and North-South dialogue. This book draws upon past and present research findings to discuss these issues. It features: an examination of the characteristics, processes and patterns of environmental crises; an analysis of the principal issues and challenges facing policy makers and implementers; and the promotion of awareness of theoretical, empirical and comparative research. The volume not only seeks to answer some of the old questions, but also open up new ones for further discussion.
Agricultural Ecology
Author: Joy Tivy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1317885058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the nature of the relationships between crops, livestock and the bio-physical environment, and the extent to which man has managed and modified the products and environment to suit his/her own particular needs.
The Threatening Desert
Author: Alan Grainger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1134061978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem is greatest in developing countries, it is by no means confined to them. Australia, Africa, the USA and India are all affected. In the 1970s an international Plan of Action was drawn up to bring the phenomenon under control, but it was never implemented. Now that the situation is more serious than ever before, this book urges new action and describes many of the myriad ways in which it is possible to arrest the progress of desertification. It describes, too, not just the failures, but the considerable successes that have been achieved. Originally published in 1990
The Ecosystem Concept In Anthropology
Author: Emilio F Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-06
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1000316300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critics of the ecosystem concept have noted the tendency of ecosystem-based studies to overemphasize energy flow, to rely on functionalist assumptions, to neglect historical and evolutionary factors, and to overlook the role of individuals as the locus of natural selection and decision making. In this volume, leading figures in the study of biological and human ecology evaluate these criticisms and propose ways to advance the state of knowledge in ecological research.
Rangelands: A Resource Under Siege
Author: P. J. Joss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780521309363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume comprises the proceedings of the Second International Rangelands Congress held in Adelaide, Australia in May 1984, and includes some 350 contributions drawn from 43 different countries. The Congress addressed the problem of the conflict between land-users and the degradation of this valuable resource. Some 40% of the Earth's land surface is and or alpine and therefore unsuitable for agricultural cultivation. Collectively, these lands are known as rangelands and in their natural state they constitute a habitat for grazing animals, both domestic and wild. Despite their low productivity, rangelands have been used for thousands of years as a source of food and fibre, but other uses such as mining, tourism, recreation and conservation are exerting increasing demands. The result is often conflict between land-users and degradation of the resource.
Migration to Shashemene
Author: Gunilla Bjerén
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9789171062451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Case study, rural migration, urbanization, urban area occupational structure, Southern Ethiopia - sex and ethnic factors, urban population division of labour, employment opportunity, ethnic group social theories. Maps, photographs, references.
Time Resources, Society and Ecology
Author: Tommy Carlstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-18
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1000698912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat. Approaches to time resources – sociological time-budget studies, anthropological activity analysis, and economic analysis of money allocation – have been limited by their sectoral scope or their failure to relate effectively to the processes of social interaction, technological change and environmental structure. In this book, the book’s articulation of time resources is developed in a general theoretical framework of action and interaction in time and space. The book examines constraints and possibilities facing preindustrial societies and throws light on the impact of technology on modern societies. Basic models of time allocation are presented, and, finally, a cross-cultural comparison is made of the mobilization of time resources in preindustrial societies. Geographers, social anthropologists and human ecologists should find this work directly relevant to their interest in understanding the interactions between man and environment.
Land Management and Survival
Author: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →East African Marine Research and Marine Resources
