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Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs - Causes and consequences of environmental change in east Africa (Hardcover)
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Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs - Causes and consequences of environmental change in east Africa (Hardcover)
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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.
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