ISBN:
0325000964
,
0852557744
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 201 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
23 cm
DDC:
363.7/0096
Keywords:
Environmental sciences Africa
;
History
;
Environmental sciences Africa
;
Case studies
;
Africa Environmental conditions
;
History
;
19th century
;
Umwelt
;
Ökologie
;
Umweltschaden
;
Desertifikation
;
Entwaldung
;
Bodenerosion
;
Africa Environmental conditions
;
History
;
Afrika
;
Äthiopien
;
Lesotho
;
Bibliografie
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte 1800-1990
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Africa's physical world -- Environment and history in Africa -- 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.
Note:
Includes index. - Bibliography