Green land, brown land, black land : an environmental history of Africa, 1800-1990
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Green land, brown land, black land : an environmental history of Africa, 1800-1990
Heinemann , James Currey, c1999
- Heinemann
- James Currey
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Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Heinemann ISBN 9780325000961
Description
This environmental history of Africa from 1800-1990, argues that Africa's landscapes were created by human activity. Case studies of environmental change in specific regions of sub-Saharan Africa illustrate central themes, including demography, disease, agriculture and natural resources.
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James Currey ISBN 9780852557747
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An environmental history written with the undergraduate and the non-specialist in mind.
This text confronts the alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining two centuries of historical evidence of environmental change. It presents African landscapes as created by humans, not as some idealized notion of Eden. Key topics covered include: the effects of population growth; disease; agricultural change; the state of natural resources; and the role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes.
North America: Heinemann
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Patterns of history: Africa's physical world
- environment and history in Africa. Part 2 Africa's historical landscapes: desert lands, human hands
- a tale of two forests - narratives of deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840-1996
- food in the forest - biodiversity, food systems and human settlement in Ghana's Upper Guinea forest, 1000-1990
- soil matters - erosion and empire in greater Lesotho, 1830-1990
- epilogue - Africa's environmental future as past.
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