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Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.
This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups.
The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones.
Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Published in association with the International African Institute
This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups.
The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones.
Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Published in association with the International African Institute
Price: $29.99
Pages: 256
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Currey
Series: African Issues
Publication Date:
01 January 1996
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.43 in
ISBN: 9780852554098
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, Anthologies: general
The title says it all. The collection of essays in this fine book sets out to demolish the myths, half-truths and downright falsehoods that have shaped thinking and policy-making on the African environment over the last few decades....It is always fun to see idols being knocked from their pedestals, though rather disturbing to see a whole gallery of them smashed at once. The authors would not wish us to conclude that there are no serious environmental problems in Africa. But they do urge us to be much more critical about environmental diagnoses, and the data on which they are based. Above all, we should probe the motives of those who propound, accept, and act upon narratives that are unproven and unsound.