Resilience And Collapse In African Savannahs

Author : Michael Bollig,David M. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351973670

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Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs by Michael Bollig,David M. Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488488

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Shaping the African Savannah by Michael Bollig Pdf

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

Author : Gufu Oba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031482915

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Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500 by Gufu Oba Pdf

Author : Jörn Ahrens,Ernst Halbmayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000902365

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Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa by Jörn Ahrens,Ernst Halbmayer Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas K. Githuku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793623942

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A Tapestry of African Histories by Nicholas K. Githuku Pdf

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.

Author : Hiroyuki Hino,Arnim Langer,John Lonsdale,Frances Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108476607

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From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures by Hiroyuki Hino,Arnim Langer,John Lonsdale,Frances Stewart Pdf

Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.

Author : Katharina Loeber
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783412503567

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Racism and Human Ecology by Katharina Loeber Pdf

The apartheid era in South Africa lasted more than 40 years. It was marked by political repression and the attempt to create a homogeneous "white South Africa", which meant excluding the non-white majority population. The establishment and maintenance of white supremacy in South Africa by colonialism and, since 1948, grand apartheid was not only the result of racist regulations and laws, but also followed a "scientific" logic to justify the resettlement and expulsion of South African blacks.The history of South Africa from 1948 to 1994 can also be seen as the history of a major society-spanning project; an attempt to build a "modern" state on the basis of racial segregation. This work investigates the factors that make it possible to stabilize a policy based on virtually impossible prerequisites over four decades: Ethnic categorization, territorial planning and "environmental protection measures".

Author : Hauke-Peter Vehrs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Pastoral systems
ISBN : 9781847012968

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Pokot Pastoralism by Hauke-Peter Vehrs Pdf

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.

Author : Christiane Naumann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643908445

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"Where We Used to Plough" by Christiane Naumann Pdf

This book offers a historically and ethnographically informed case study of environmental governance, institutional and land-use change, and livelihood strategies in a former homeland in the South African Free State province. Based on rich archival material, the author reconstructs how the state invented a degradation narrative and used it as legitimation for the regulation of human-environment relations during the twentieth century. In addition, the study investigates how people today make a living in a post-agrarian society characterized by low agricultural production, diversification of non-farm incomes, and declining population numbers, declining population numbers. Author Christiane Naumann is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Author : Gerda Kuiper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030180461

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Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya by Gerda Kuiper Pdf

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Though this agro-industry has attracted critical attention from journalists and non-governmental organizations, this book is the first comprehensive, social scientific analysis of the industry’s labour arrangements and production processes. Gerda Kuiper here interprets the work on the farms as ‘agro-industrial labour’: a labour system characterized by high levels of discipline and a strict rhythm of work, due to the demands posed by a highly perishable agricultural product. This framework enables the author to draw on insights from a wide range of anthropological and sociological studies on (agro-)industrial wage labour around the globe. This mixed-methods approach, deployed alongside rich ethnographic detail, allows the author to center the flower farm workers in her analysis.

Author : Michael Bollig,Alfons Wabahe Mosimane,Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa,Selma Mekondjo Lendelvo
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847013406

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Conservation, Markets and the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa by Michael Bollig,Alfons Wabahe Mosimane,Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa,Selma Mekondjo Lendelvo Pdf

Focuses on a key issue of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?

Author : Adrian C. Newton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108472739

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Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery by Adrian C. Newton Pdf

Examines how ecosystems can collapse as a result of human activity, and the ecological processes underlying their subsequent recovery.

Author : Joe Mutizwa
Publisher : Partridge Africa
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781482825008

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Savannah Protocols by Joe Mutizwa Pdf

The Savannah Protocols offers a helicopter view of the investment opportunities available across sub-Saharan Africa. The risks and potential obstacles are clearly articulated, and the business strategies suitable for sub-Saharan Africa frontier markets are explored through the use of metaphors that are grounded in the context of the subregion. "What a wonderful book. Imaginative. Practical. Inspirational. Important for anyone involved with business leadership, not just in Africa. It takes us right into the heart of so many key leadership and management issues in these challenging times." —Professor Gareth Morgan, author of Images of Organizations

Author : Lance H. Gunderson,Craig Reece Allen,C. S. Holling
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610911337

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Foundations of Ecological Resilience by Lance H. Gunderson,Craig Reece Allen,C. S. Holling Pdf

Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems. Resilience theory is especially important to environmental scientists for its role in underpinning adaptive management approaches to ecosystem and resource management. Foundations of Ecological Resilience is a collection of the most important articles on the subject of ecological resilience—those writings that have defined and developed basic concepts in the field and help explain its importance and meaning for scientists and researchers. The book’s three sections cover articles that have shaped or defined the concepts and theories of resilience, including key papers that broke new conceptual ground and contributed novel ideas to the field; examples that demonstrate ecological resilience in a range of ecosystems; and articles that present practical methods for understanding and managing nonlinear ecosystem dynamics. Foundations of Ecological Resilience is an important contribution to our collective understanding of resilience and an invaluable resource for students and scholars in ecology, wildlife ecology, conservation biology, sustainability, environmental science, public policy, and related fields.