Rural resources & local livelihoods in Africa /

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Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Oxford : James Currey, 2005.
Description:xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5573945
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Varying Form of Title:Rural resources and local livelihoods in Africa
Other authors / contributors:Homewood, Katherine.
ISBN:1403969302 (alk. paper)
0852559151 (James Currey paper)
085255916X (James Currey cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Rural resource use and local livelihoods in sub saharan africa".
  • Part 1. Degradation or Change?
  • "Out of the woodland, into the fire: Fuelwood and livelihoods within and beyond Lake Malawi National Park"
  • "Protected areas and decentralisation in the democratic republic of congo: a case for devolving responsibility to local institutions"
  • Part II. Shfiting Livelihoods: Conservation and devlopment in Changing Environments
  • "Detail and dogma, data and discourse: Food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia"
  • "The contingency of community conservation"
  • Part III. Livelihood Strategies: Demogrpahic and Economic Ways of Dealing with Unpredictable Change
  • "People are a resource: Demography and livelihoods in Sahelian FulBe of Burkina Faso"
  • "Gender equality - no: What do FulBe women really want?"
  • Part IV. Social Institutions: Social Institutions of Resource Managment - Conservation and Development
  • "Understanding institutional contexts to define research questions: Settlement history, forestry institutions, identities and visions of the future in south-west Cameroon"
  • "Legal pluralism in the rain forests of south-eastern Cameroon"
  • "Conclusion"