Rural resources & local livelihoods in Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Katherine Homewood.

Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environme...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Homewood, Katherine
Other title:Rural resources and local livelihoods in Africa.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford : Palgrave Macmillan ; James Currey, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rural resource use & local livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa / Katherine Homewood
  • Out of the woodland, into the fire / Jo Abbot
  • Protected areas & decentralisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Emmanuel De Merode
  • Detail & dogma, data & discourse / Sian Sullivan
  • The contingency of community conservation / Dan Brockington
  • People are a resource / Kate Hampshire & Sara Randall
  • Gender equality? No.! / Solveig Buhl
  • Understanding institutional contexts to define research questions / Barrie Sharpe
  • Legal pluralism in the rain forests of south-eastern Cameroon / Monica Graziani & Philip Burnham
  • Rural resources, local livelihoods & poverty concepts / Katherine Homewood.