Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs
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Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs
Author | : Michael Bollig,David M. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351973670 |
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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.
Shaping the African Savannah
Author | : Michael Bollig |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108488488 |
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A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500
Author | : Gufu Oba |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031482915 |
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Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa
Author | : Jörn Ahrens,Ernst Halbmayer |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2023-07-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000902365 |
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This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation. Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.
African Futures
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004471641 |
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The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.
Agricultural Intensification Environmental Conservation Conflict and Co existence at Lake Naivasha Kenya
Author | : Gerda Kuiper,Eric Kioko,Michael Bollig |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789004695429 |
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This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.
A Tapestry of African Histories
Author | : Nicholas K. Githuku |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781793623942 |
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In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author | : Hiroyuki Hino,Arnim Langer,John Lonsdale,Frances Stewart |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2019-08-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108476607 |
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Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.