Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Richard Primack,Johnny W. Wilson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781783747535

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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa by Richard Primack,Johnny W. Wilson Pdf

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096527197

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WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336). by CAITLIN. FINLAYSON Pdf

Author : Lori Maguire,Susan Ball,Sébastien Lefait
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000219807

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Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa by Lori Maguire,Susan Ball,Sébastien Lefait Pdf

This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age. The period since the Second World War has seen profound changes in sub-Saharan Africa, notably because of decolonization, the creation of independent nation-states and the transformation of the relationships with the West. Using a range of case studies from news media, maps, popular culture, film and TV the contributions assess how narrative and counter-narratives have developed and been received by their audiences in light of these changes. Examining the overlapping areas between media representations and historical events, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies and Media and Cultural Studies.

Author : Kirsten Majgaard,Alain Mingat
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821388907

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Education in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kirsten Majgaard,Alain Mingat Pdf

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained through the preparation of Country Status Reports for more than 30 countries.

Author : Deon Filmer,Louise Fox
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801082

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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa by Deon Filmer,Louise Fox Pdf

This book focuses on how to improve the quality of jobs and meet the aspirations of youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that a strong foundation for human capital development can be key to boosting earnings, arguing for a balanced approach that builds skills and demand for labor.

Author : DONALD L. SPARKS
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000400335

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The Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa by DONALD L. SPARKS Pdf

The blue economy, comprising coastal and marine resources, offers vast benefits for sub-Saharan Africa: of the 53 countries and territories in the region, 32 are coastal states; there are 13 million sq km of maritime zones; more than 90% of the region’s exports and imports come by sea; and the African Union hails the blue economy as the ‘new frontier of African renaissance’. Despite their importance, the region’s coastal and marine resources have been neither fully appreciated nor fully utilized. They are only now being recognized as being key to Africa’s potential prosperity. As the region grows, it has, in general, not taken adequate safeguards to protect these valuable resources. That is partly because some of the problems (pollution, for example) are regional and know no borders. All too often, short-term gains are made at the expense of the long term (overfishing, for example). This book provides, for the first time, a study of the constraints and opportunities the blue economy offers for sub-Saharan Africa. It includes an introduction and overview; sectoral analyses (including tourism, fisheries, mineral resources, culture, shipping and maritime safety); country case studies; and analyses of regional and international efforts towards better coastal zone and marine management.

Author : Robert O. Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040615182

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Problems in the History of Modern Africa by Robert O. Collins Pdf

A presentation of important issues in the study of modern Africa. It addresses: decolonization and the end of Empire; democracy and the nation state; epidemics in Africa - the human and financial costs; development - failure or success; the African environment - origins of a crisis; and more.

Author : Donald L. Sparks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000375404

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Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Donald L. Sparks Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is vastly diverse, and the 49 countries of the region range significantly in terms of population, size and economic scale. The region also differs in topography, climate, history, culture, languages and political systems. Given this vast diversity, it is, accordingly, difficult to draw general conclusions about the continent’s economic performance as a whole. Additionally, the lack of current statistics for several countries makes it difficult to make accurate assessments of economic conditions. Nevertheless, some broad comparisons can be made: of the world’s developing areas, sub-Saharan Africa has the worst record in virtually all of the most important social and economic indicators: the region has the lowest gross national income per head, the lowest life expectancy at birth, the lowest youth literacy rate, the highest rate of adult HIV infection and the highest number of children not living past five years of age. This volume begins by examining recent economic developments and trends. It then looks at the major economic constraints the region has faced in recent years, breaking down those constraints as either ‘external’ (e.g. terms of trade) over which the individual countries have but limited control, or ‘internal’ (e.g. governance and economic policy), over which there is more control. The book concludes by arguing that, despite the notable challenges cited above, sub-Saharan Africa is poised for a transformation, based on closer regional economic co-operation, a growing middle class, increased demand for locally produced goods and services, and a young population.

Author : Valerie Møller,Benjamin J. Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030657888

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Quality of Life and Human Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa by Valerie Møller,Benjamin J. Roberts Pdf

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the major milestones in political and economic development. It focuses on social indicators pointing to significant changes that have affected the health, education and wealth of sub-Saharan Africans and their outlook on the future since the wind of change blew through the region. With case studies and vignettes the book highlights how individual citizens across the 44 different countries of sub-Saharan Africa experience well-being and express their aspirations for the future. This book provides relevant material for practitioners and policy makers, including community and development workers, in non-governmental and other organizations in sub-Saharan African countries.

Author : Paul Sergius Koku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 1685071910

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Sub-Saharan Africa by Paul Sergius Koku Pdf

"Sub-Saharan Africa literally remains the "gift that keeps giving". The more we know about this region of a rich and diverse continent, the less we realize that we actually knew. Thus, this book, Sub-Saharan Africa: Culture, History and People, is an effort to yet again revisit a region that we thought we knew. It is a culmination of eclectic research efforts, both conceptual and empirical, that focus on sub-Saharan Africa from scholars around the world. The book serves as useful compendium to those who already study the field and as an indispensable handbook to beginners who wish study the region"--

Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262262705

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Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa by Marcel Fafchamps Pdf

An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy. In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents findings about economics exchange in Africa that have implications both for future research and current policy. Employing empirical data as well as theoretical models that clarify the data, Fafchamps takes as his unifying principle the difficulties of contract enforcement. Arguing that in an unpredictable world contracts are not always likely to be respected, he shows that contract agreements in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the absence of large hierarchies (both corporate and governmental) and as a result must depend to a greater degree than in more developed economies on social networks and personal trust. Fafchamps considers policy recommendations as they apply to countries in three different stages of development: countries with undeveloped market institutions, like Ghana; countries at an intermediate stage, like Kenya; and countries with developed market institutions, like Zimbabwe. Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa caps ten years of personal research by the author. Fafchamps, in collaboration with such institutions as the Africa Division of the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, participated in the surveys of manufacturing firms and agricultural traders that provide the empirical basis for the book. The result is a work that makes a significant contribution to research on the continuing economic stagnation of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and is also largely accessible to researchers in other fields and policy professionals.

Author : D. M. Parkin,J. Ferlay,A. Jemal,M. Borok,S. S. Manraj,G. G. N'Da,F. Bray,B. Liu,F. J. Ogunbiyi
Publisher : IARC Scientific Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9283222202

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Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa by D. M. Parkin,J. Ferlay,A. Jemal,M. Borok,S. S. Manraj,G. G. N'Da,F. Bray,B. Liu,F. J. Ogunbiyi Pdf

The Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa volume brings together population-based cancer incidence data from 25 cancer registries in 20 sub-Saharan African countries that are part of the African Cancer Registry Network. The compiled data in this volume, presented and commented upon by covered population and by anatomical site, are of tremendous value to the assessment of the pattern and evolution of cancer in Africa, as a means of elucidating, confirming, and evaluating causes of the disease.

Author : Katherine V. Gough,Thilde Langevang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317548362

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Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa by Katherine V. Gough,Thilde Langevang Pdf

Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un- and underemployment. Job creation through entrepreneurship is currently being promoted by international organizations, governments and NGOs as a key solution, despite there being a dearth of knowledge about youth entrepreneurship in an African context. This book makes an important contribution by exploring the nature of youth entrepreneurship in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia. It provides new insights into conceptual and methodological discussions of youth entrepreneurship as well as presenting original empirical data. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, conducted under the auspices of a collaborative, interdisciplinary and comparative research project, it highlights the opportunities and challenges young people face in setting up and running businesses. Divided into a number of clear sections, each with its own introduction and conclusion, the book considers the nature of youth entrepreneurship at the national level, in both urban and rural areas, in specific sectors - including mobile telephony, mining, handicrafts and tourism - and analyses how key factors, such as microfinance, social capital and entrepreneurship education, affect youth entrepreneurship. New light is shed on the multi-faceted nature of youth entrepreneurship and a convincing case is presented for a more nuanced understanding of the term entrepreneurship and the situation faced by many African youth today. This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in youth entrepreneurship, including in development studies, business studies, youth studies and geography, as well as to development practitioners and policy makers. The Open Access title has now been added to the Open Access page. http://www.tandfebooks.com/page/openaccess

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309266512

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The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that burden. Yet in most parts of Africa-and especially in those areas with the greatest health care needs-the data available to health planners to better understand and address these problems are extremely limited. The vast majority of Africans are born and will die without being recorded in any document or spearing in official statistics. With few exceptions, African countries have no civil registration systems in place and hence are unable to continuously generate vital statistics or to provide systematic information on patterns of cause of death, relying instead on periodic household-level surveys or intense and continuous monitoring of small demographic surveillance sites to provide a partial epidemiological and demographic profile of the population. In 1991 the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences organized a workshop on the epidemiological transition in developing countries. The workshop brought together medical experts, epidemiologists, demographers, and other social scientists involved in research on the epidemiological transition in developing countries to discuss the nature of the ongoing transition, identify the most important contributors to the overall burden of disease, and discuss how such information could be used to assist policy makers in those countries to establish priorities with respect to the prevention and management of the main causes of ill health. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop convened in October 2011 that featured invited speakers on the topic of epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop was organized by a National Research Council panel of experts in various aspects of the study of epidemiological transition and of sub-Saharan data sources. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa serves as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop in October 2011.

Author : Chris Allen,Gavin Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002622459

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Sub-Saharan Africa by Chris Allen,Gavin Williams Pdf