Development donors have supported thousands of environmental
initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The
contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess
these projects and conclude that environmental programmes
constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention
in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study material
from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that
environmental programmes themselves often have direct and
far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and
poverty on the continent.Individual essays in the collection
theorise specific forms of environmental intervention; the degree
of historical discontinuity that exists between contemporary and
past environmental policies and practices; the effect environmental
programmes have had on localised systems of knowledge and value
regimes; the strategies of accumulation that have been spun out of
heavy donor and state investment in environmental programmes; and
the numerous social, cultural and political-economic dislocations
these initiatives have produced in African environments all across
the continent.
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