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The Environmental Crunch in Africa - Growth Narratives vs. Local Realities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Environmental Crunch in Africa - Growth Narratives vs. Local Realities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book discusses the problems and challenges of
environmental-ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current
craze of economic growth and 'development'. Africa's significant
economic dynamics and growth trajectories are marked by neglect of
the environment, reinforcing ecological crises. Unless
environmental-ecological and population growth problems are
addressed as an integral part of developmental strategies and
growth models, the crises will accelerate and lead to huge costs in
later years. Chapters examine multiple emerging tension points all
across the continent, including the potential benefits and harm of
growing urban-based ecotourism, the trajectory of labour-saving
technologies and the problems facing agro-pastoralism. Although
environmental management and sustainability features of African
rural societies should not be idealized, functional 'traditional'
economies, interests and management practices are often bypassed,
seen by state elites as inefficient and inhibiting 'growth'. In
many regions the seeds are now sown for lasting environmental
crises that will affect local societies that have rarely been given
opportunity to claim accountability from the state regimes and
donors driving these changes.
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