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Titolo: |
Eastern and Southern Africa : development challenges in a volatile region / / edited by Deborah Potts and Tanya Bowyer-Bower
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
Disciplina: | 330.9676 |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa, Eastern Economic conditions |
Africa, Southern Economic conditions | |
Africa, Eastern Politics and government 1960- | |
Africa, Southern Politics and government | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
Bowyer-BowerT. A. S (Tanya A. S.)
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Note generali: | At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). |
First published 2004 by Pearson Education. | |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; 1 Development challenges and debates in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Eastern and southern Africa: defining a diverse region; Global political economy changes: regional perspectives; Development challenges in the region; Development theory and development debates; 2 Demographic change in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Population size; Mortality; Age-sex structure |
Family structureConcluding remarks; 3 Structural adjustment in eastern and southern Africa: the tragedy of development; False dawn: a brief history of the first two decades; Triumph of market-Leninism over Marxist-Leninism; Stabilisation or adjustment?; A taxonomy of countries in the region; Conclusion; 4 The persistence of poverty; Poverty in context; Poverty measurement; Poverty trends; Food and hunger; Healthcare; Education; The debt issue; Conclusions; 5 Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management; 'Wild' plant and animal resources: biophysical determinants of availability | |
7 Water resources and development challenges in eastern and southern AfricaPhysical setting; Estimation of renewable water resources; Use of water resources; Supply and demand - the water stress index; Quality of water resources; Hydropolitics of transboundary watercourses; Alleviating water scarcity - interbasin water transfers and 'virtual water'; Concluding discussion - future challenges; 8 Desertification in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Developments in the understanding of desertification; Desertification today | |
Contemporary implications of desertification for development in eastern and southern AfricaCauses of desertification; Conclusion; 9 Geographies of governance and regional politics; Introduction: geographical analysis and African politics; Key themes and issues in national, regional and international (geo)politics; States and regional (dis)integration: imagining 'development' communities; Democratisation and conflict resolution in global political and economic context; Conclusions: Co-operation, corruption and complexity in African politics | |
10 International and regional trade in eastern and southern Africa | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Eastern and Southern Africa ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-317-90491-5 |
1-315-84778-7 | |
1-317-90490-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910466142403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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