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The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
Environmental accounts bring together economic and environmental
information in a common framework to measure the contribution of
the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the
environment. They enable governments to set priorities, monitor
economic policies more precisely, enact more effective
environmental regulations and resource management strategies, and
design more efficient market instruments for environmental
policies. Many industrialized countries compile environmental
accounts, but progress in developing countries has been limited -
even though the need for environmental accounts is perhaps more
acute in these regions. Environmental Accounting in Action studies
the experiences of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, the core
countries of a unique, regional environmental accounting programme
in Southern Africa. Covering minerals, forestry, fisheries and
water, each chapter provides important lessons about sustainable
resource management. As a whole, the case studies demonstrate how
to overcome the many challenges of constructing environmental
accounts and the mechanics of successful implementation. By
providing a transparent system of information about the
relationship between human activities and the environment, the
accounts have improved policy dialogue among different stakeholders
and have played a significant role in environmental policy design.
This book advances a powerful argument for the use of environmental
accounts and is a major contribution to the environmental
literature on developing countries. Environmental and ecological
economists, resource managers, policymakers, NGOs and anyone
concerned with sustainable development will find this an
informative and valuable read.
This book presents a valuable new tool for water management - water
resource accounting - which significantly advances the economic
analysis of water. Water resource accounts integrate detailed
information about water supply and use with national income
accounts to show the economic use of water, costs and tariffs paid,
and the economic value of water for different economic uses.Based
on the UN's handbook for environmental accounting, this book
describes the implementation and policy application of water
accounts in three African countries - Botswana, Namibia and South
Africa - and discusses how they have been used by water managers.
The book compares water use across the three countries, explaining
the differences in water resources and water policy. In addition to
the comprehensive outline of physical and monetary water accounts
for each country, the authors provide an extensive discussion of
water valuation as well as addressing a number of issues of
regional importance, including water accounting for an
international river basin and the impact of trade on each country's
water use. By demonstrating the usefulness of water resource
accounts, this book makes a major contribution to the literature on
water economics and management, sustainable development, and to the
development of environmental accounting in general. The Economics
of Water Management in Southern Africa will appeal to a wide
readership including: environmental and development economists NGOs
concerned with sustainable development environmental advocacy
groups professionals (economists and environmentalists) working in
Africa on water and sustainable development issues water
professionals national accounts experts and statisticians.
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
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Seconde Chance
Mary Lange; Jay Northcote
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R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an
indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth - the assets
such as infrastructure, forests, minerals, and human capital that
produce GDP. In contrast, corporations routinely report on both
their income and assets to assess their economic health and
prospects for the future. Wealth accounts allow countries to take
stock of their assets to monitor the sustainability of development,
an urgent concern today for all countries. The Changing Wealth of
Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth
for 141 countries over 20 years (1995-2014) as the sum of produced
capital, 19 types of natural capital, net foreign assets, and human
capital overall as well as by gender and type of employment. Great
progress has been made in estimating wealth since the fi rst
volume, Where Is the Wealth of Nations? Measuring Capital for the
21st Century, was published in 2006. New data substantially improve
estimates of natural capital, and, for the first time, human
capital is measured by using household surveys to estimate lifetime
earnings. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 begins with a review
of global and regional trends in wealth over the past two decades
and provides examples of how wealth accounts can be used for the
analysis of development patterns. Several chapters discuss the new
work on human capital and its application in development policy.
The book then tackles elements of natural capital that are not yet
fully incorporated in the wealth accounts: air pollution, marine
fisheries, and ecosystems. This book targets policy makers but will
engage anyone committed to building a sustainable future for the
planet.
Unable to face the truth, Ree doesn't want to believe that it was
her fault - she is simply a victim too. How can one death cause so
much strife? Yet the more she tells the lie, the more she no longer
remembers what really happened. Will the darkness consume her - or
will she ever find freedom of her own? Trying to forget the
gruesome life he once led, Wilder would do anything to protect his
daughter from ever knowing that part about himself. Yet this
becomes difficult when he is forced to return to what he once did
for the sake of his country. Will he ever be able to leave the past
behind? Living without a home, a family, or friends seems to be his
lot in life, but when Treas is sold into slavery he loses all hope
of ever becoming anything more than a slave. His childhood dream of
a bright future is forgotten and now all he can do is pretend to be
better than he is. Is it escape he longs for - or death? In a land
governed by a foreign, harsh king with an iron fist, rebellion is
just below the surface. Will anyone be brave enough to fight for a
better life - for freedom?
When Mary Lange asked a group of Upington women: `What do you know
about the Water Snake?', this triggered a set of lyrical short
stories, in an attempt to capture the myth of the Water snake. The
women's response to her question formed the basis for the Water
Stories , here published with a set of original drawings by
regional artist Betta Steyn. Johanna (Nana) de Wee, Martha van
Rooi, Maria (Mokkie) Malo, Noxolo(Girlie) Prescilla Saaiman and
Elizabeth (Bessa) Sixaxa became narrators - sharing with us their
beliefs surrounding the Water Snake. Religion, myth or folklore,
these Water Stories provide a glimpse into beliefs, customs,
traditions and everyday realities of these peoples of mixed
cultural descent. The original regional Afrikaans narrations have
been supplemented by an English translation as explanation. Subject
fields include cultural studies, linguistics, religion, archaeology
and anthropology.
One of the most important and complex problems facing both
developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic
growth without harming the environment. Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie
Lange address this issue in a practical and realistic way: through
a detailed evaluation of the well-known approach to sustainable
development outlined in the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future.
Taking issue with the Brundtland Report's optimistic and widely
accepted assumptions, the authors show that the positive effects of
recycling, increased fuel-efficiency, and other technological
adjustments will not go far enough to provide for truly sustainable
development in the long term. Through a new, broad-based empirical
analysis, they argue that unless there are significant changes in
lifestyles and the use of technologies, continued environmental
degradation cannot be avoided. They warn that the trend of making
only slight adjustments in the use of technologies, while feasible
from an economic point of view for industrialized nations, will
undoubtedly lead to further environmental damage.
In addition to offering a clear and unflinching look at what
development is really doing to the global environment, the unique
conceptual framework developed for this analysis provides an
invaluable basis for analysis for the new, multidisciplinary field
of ecological economics. Duchin and Lange describe how this new
methodology will enable economists and policy-makers to evaluate
our options for the future, and choose those that most effectively
reduce environmental degradation and achieve sustainable
development. The book will appeal to economists, environmental
scientists and activists, policy analysts, and ecologists, as well
as the general reader with an interest in the sustainable
development of our environment.
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