LEADER 04696oam 2200733 450 001 9910520094803321 005 20231127225227.0 010 $a9783030889876$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a3030889874$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030889869$b(hardback) 010 $z9783030889883$b(paperback) 010 $z9783030889890$b(trade paperback) 010 $a3-030-88987-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-88987-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6854708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6854708 035 $a(CKB)20667425100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-88987-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920667425100041 100 $a20220113d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEast Africa's human environment interactions $ehistorical perspectives for a sustainable future /$fRob Marchant 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (441 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Marchant, Rob East Africa's Human Environment Interactions Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030889869 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Foundations -- Chapter 2: Origins and migration -- Chapter 3: Trading languages, crops ? East Africa?s place in the world -- Chapter 4: Elephants, Maize and guns -- Chapter 5: Colonial transitions -- Chapter 6: Post-Colonial transitions and recent political history -- Chapter 7: Protecting Protected Areas -- Chapter 8: A bright future?. 330 $aEast Africa is characterised by extreme social and environmental contrasts that has undergone transformative changes over the past 300,000 years - the era of modern humans. People have left increasingly deep and pervasive footprints across the region, resulting in the anthropogenically crafted landscape of the present. The book shows how understanding contemporary issues, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, conservation, agricultural development, and achieving the sustainable development agenda, all require an appreciation of the past. The volume explore these interactions from the origins of human species with a particular focus on the last 500 years the Anthropocene. As trade, particularly of ivory, maize, and munitions, expanded with the Asia, Europe and the Americas this shaped many of the current issues in East Africa?s society, economy, and environment. These trade links paved the way for the colonial era that started at an atypical moment in East African environmental history. The colonial impacts on society, ecosystems, Protected Areas, biodiversity conservation, and the ensuing legacy through the independent states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are explored. Given this rich, diverse, and connected past, what the future will be like for East African societies, ecosystems, and landscapes under climate change, high population growth, and rapid development? Rob Marchant is Professor of Tropical of Ecology at the University of York, UK. Much of his research is focused on East Africa, where over the past thirty years of working in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania he has developed close collaborations with the numerous University, NGO, UN and Governmental institutions that, alongside multiple conversations with individuals, have profoundly influenced and shaped the perspectives presented here. The interplay between the climate, ecosystems, cultures, livelihoods, and land uses are explore to document how the massive challenges facing the region have been created, are being addressed and future opportunities maximized. 606 $aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman ecology$xStudy and teaching 606 $aEnvironmental geography 606 $aEnvironmental management 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aEnvironmental geography. 615 0$aEnvironmental management. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a363.70096 700 $aMarchant$b Rob$01074929 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ $d YDX 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bGW5XE 801 2$bFIE 801 2$bEBLCP 801 2$bOCLCF 801 2$bN$T 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bUKAHL 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bWAU 801 2$bOCLCO 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910520094803321 996 $aEast Africa's Human Environment Interactions$92582913 997 $aUNINA