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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael B.K. Darkoh , Apollo RwomirePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.020kg ISBN: 9781138723511ISBN 10: 1138723517 Pages: 550 Publication Date: 11 November 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'At last! This is a timely book on Africa and its people - environment relationships by a variety of specialists. The range of material is impressive; socio-economic issues are juxtaposed with environmental issues with specific reference to African countries and their unique contexts. At the same time the relationships between these countries and the wider world are explored. Scholars and students of Geography and Development as well as those in the Social and Environmental Sciences will find this book a valuable synopsis of the relationships between people and place in Africa. The approach is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, the authors all have firsthand experience and the end product is a well balanced book. It deserves to be widely read.' Dr A.M. Mannion, Department of Geography, University of Reading, UK 'Library shelves and web sites, replete with horror stories of the declining condition of the planet, provide plenty of evidence that Africa is a hotspot, at least in the eyes of western scholarship and international agencies. To the world outside, Africa appears to be headed down the tubes. But on the ground the picture of a dying continent is much less certain. Nobody doubts that humans are leaving imprints and that apparently stable ecosystems are threatened and biodiversity is shrinking. But looking through a country-by-country or village-by-village prism, the picture is not so simple. Africa's landscapes and people are resilient. For instance, among the conservation myths the Global North has foisted on Africa is that its wild landscapes are being totally devastated by the encroachment of humans and their struggle for survival. This generalization may be true at some scales and in some places, but overall, Africa human-environment relationships, in fact, show both positive and negative trajectories. Certainly national and global political economies and undeniable human tragedies, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the current plag Author InformationMichael B.K. Darkoh, edited by Apollo Rwomire Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |