Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: Contributions to Global Debates

ISBN-13: 9780198234197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

Deborah Sporton; David S. G. Thomas

Opis

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustainability in the context of the Kalahari environment of southern Africa, a region subject to marked spatial and temporal natural variability. Each chapter is written by an active Kalahari researcher and addresses, from an environmental or a social perspective, the implications of different policies for rural livelihoods and coping strategies.

Recenzje

Sporton and Thomas have produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking volumes that would certainly be purchased by reseachers and policy generators concerned with development and the environment in semiarid rangelands as a whole. Micheal Meadows, Land Degradation and Development V 15 Number 4, 2004