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Subject(s)

• Environmental policy—Africa, Sub-Saharan [Browse]
• Natural resources—Government policy—Africa, Sub-Saharan [Browse]
• Environmental management—Africa, Sub-Saharan [Browse]
• Climatic changes—Government policy—Africa, Sub-Saharan [Browse]
• Climate change mitigation—Africa, Sub-Saharan [Browse]

Editor

• Akpan, Wilson [Browse]
• Moyo, Philani [Browse]

Summary note

"Based on case studies in Southern Africa, West Africa and East Africa, this book revisits some of the dilemmas and paradoxes associated with the development, management and utilisation of environmental resources, as well as lacklustre official handling of climate change-related challenges, in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focus is on scholarly debates and specific practices around compensation, benefit- and burden-sharing, local participation and space-place dynamics vis-à-vis natural resource exploitation. It highlights fundamental ambiguities in the ways the dominant discourses and policy responses have been framed and mobilised, and examines epistemic and ideational incongruences that have hobbled and sometimes negated the effectiveness of otherwise well-intentioned interventions. On climate change, the book revisits debates around the vulnerability-assets nexus with regard to mitigation and adaptation, as well as the intersection of climate information and livelihoods in agro-based settings"--Publisher's description.

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Contents

• Science, ethnoscience and a dam: (Mis)reading the potential impacts of the Ntabelanga Dam, South Africa / Wilson Akpan, Johan van Tol, Melissa Malambile and Ntombesize Nqalo
• Corporations, communities and impact: the case of coal / Freek Cronje and David van Wyk
• South Africa: control of biodiversity in the context of biopiracy / Babalwa Sishuta and Anastasia Doyle
• Vulnerability-assets nexus in climate change adaptation: reflections from South Africa and Zimbabwe / Philani Moyo
• Meteorological and indigenous climate change information access and usage for adaptation in Matobo District, Zimbabwe / Thulani Dube and Philani Moyo
• When "adequate" counts for nothing: compensation and collective memory in a postcolonial mining context / Ikechukw Umejesi and Wilson Akpan
• Contending "securities" in Nigeria's "globalised" Niger Delta: the complex intersections and dimensions of the oil nexus / Cyril Obi
• Climate change and the oil industry in Nigeria: policy and action imperatives for sustainability / Engobo Emeseh
• Titanium mining, graves, and spirits in Kenya's coastal province: revisiting the compensation problem / Willice Abuya and Wilson Akpan
• Kenya: a socio-historical analysis of the role of policy in mining conflict mitigation / Willice Abuya.

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ISBN

• 1443886513 ((hardcover))
• 9781443886512 ((hardcover))

OCLC

989027039

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