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Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the driest continent / / Abdeen Mustafa Omer
| Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the driest continent / / Abdeen Mustafa Omer |
| Autore | Omer Abdeen Mustafa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (70 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Collana |
African political, economic, and security issues
Water resource planning, development and management |
| Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61761-068-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Water -- Energy -- Health -- Agriculture -- Biodiversity -- Other issues -- IGAC/Debits-Africa (IDAF) -- Africa environmental outlook. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461074503321 |
Omer Abdeen Mustafa
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| New York, : Nova Science, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the driest continent / / Abdeen Mustafa Omer
| Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the driest continent / / Abdeen Mustafa Omer |
| Autore | Omer Abdeen Mustafa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (70 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Collana |
African political, economic, and security issues
Water resource planning, development and management |
| Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Africa |
| ISBN | 1-61761-068-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Water -- Energy -- Health -- Agriculture -- Biodiversity -- Other issues -- IGAC/Debits-Africa (IDAF) -- Africa environmental outlook. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790067003321 |
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Omer Abdeen Mustafa
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| New York, : Nova Science, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Framework and tools for environmental management in Africa / / Godwell Nhamo, Ekpe Inyang
| Framework and tools for environmental management in Africa / / Godwell Nhamo, Ekpe Inyang |
| Autore | Nhamo Godwell |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar, Senegal, : CODESRIA, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina |
333.72096
333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | InyangEkpe |
| Collana | CODESRIA book series |
| Soggetto topico | Environmental management - Africa |
| ISBN |
9786613113986
9781283113984 1283113988 9782869784437 2869784430 9782869784413 2869784414 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Framework for environmental management -- pt. 2. Selected tools for environmental management -- pt. 3. Emerging environmental issues. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910958182503321 |
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Nhamo Godwell
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| Dakar, Senegal, : CODESRIA, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Governance ambientale e sviluppo locale in Africa : cooperazioni, saperi, cartografie / a cura di Angelo Turco
| Governance ambientale e sviluppo locale in Africa : cooperazioni, saperi, cartografie / a cura di Angelo Turco |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : F. Angeli, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Turco, Angelo <1946- > |
| Collana |
Uomo, ambiente, sviluppo ; 2
Ricerche ; 17 |
| ISBN |
9788856831030
8856831031 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991001160079707536 |
| Milano : F. Angeli, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Governance for justice and environmental sustainability : lessons across natural resource sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Merle Sowman and Rachel Wynberg
| Governance for justice and environmental sustainability : lessons across natural resource sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Merle Sowman and Rachel Wynberg |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Soggetto topico | Natural resources - Africa, Southern - Management |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Governance, equity and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction to the discourse; 2 Theoretical deliberations on understanding natural resource governance; 3 Localizing global environmental governance norms: Implications for justice; 4 Governing ancestral land in Madagascar: Have policy reforms contributed to social justice?; 5 Exclusionary spaces: Power, poverty and community-based natural resource management in West Africa. 6 Wildlife paying its way? A critical analysis of community-based natural resource management in the Chobe Enclave, Botswana7 Community-based conservation and protected areas: Commons perspectives for promoting biodiversity and social justice in southern Africa; 8 Community-based natural resource management: Micro-governance and face-to-face participatory democracy; 9 Fisheries co-management in the Okavango Delta's panhandle: The Okavango Fisheries Management Committee case study; 10 Shifting gear: A new governance framework for small-scale fisheries in South Africa. 11 Legal pluralism and the governance of freshwater resources in southern Africa: Can customary governance be embedded within the statutory frameworks for integrated water resources management?12 Customary governance of baobab in eastern Zimbabwe: Impacts of state-led interventions; 13 Partnerships are not forever: The limits of collaborative governance in diamond mining in Namaqualand; 14 Governance, equity and sustainability in non-timber forest product value chains; 15 Governing the ungovernable? Climate change and social justice in southern Africa. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476875103321 |
| New York, NY : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FalolaToyin
BrownellEmily |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| ISBN |
9781136657641
1136657649 9781136657658 1136657657 9780203806760 020380676X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa
3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971873203321 |
| New York, : Routledge, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BrownellEmily
FalolaToyin |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-136-65765-7
0-203-80676-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa
3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451724103321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BrownellEmily
FalolaToyin |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| ISBN |
1-136-65764-9
1-136-65765-7 0-203-80676-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa
3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779043203321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mining for change : natural resources and industry in Africa / / John Page and Finn Tarp [[electronic resource]]
| Mining for change : natural resources and industry in Africa / / John Page and Finn Tarp [[electronic resource]] |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Collana |
UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural resources - Government policy - Africa
Construction industry - Africa |
| ISBN |
0-19-259187-8
0-19-188591-6 0-19-259186-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910404756603321 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa : Panacea or Pandora's Box? / / ed. by Jesse Salah Ovadia, J. Andrew Grant, Nathan Andrews
| Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa : Panacea or Pandora's Box? / / ed. by Jesse Salah Ovadia, J. Andrew Grant, Nathan Andrews |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (392 pages) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Soggetto topico | Environmental policy - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Environmental policy & protocols |
| ISBN |
1-4875-4768-4
1-4875-3176-1 |
| Classificazione | cci1icc |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- SECTION I Introduction -- 1 An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa -- SECTION II Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels -- 2 Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: "New Governance" Insights from South Africa -- 3 The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana's "Oil City": How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi -- 4 Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana's Oil -- 5 Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda -- 6 Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors -- SECTION III Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement -- 7 Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development -- 8 "The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths": An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism -- 9 Promoting Mining Local Procurement through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO's Eforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry -- 10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa -- 11 "Community Development" in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project -- SECTION IV Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus -- 12 Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic -- 13 Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- 14 China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing's Foreign Policy in Africa -- SECTION V Concluding Remarks and Reflections -- 15 Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996509964103316 |
| Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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