"Deforestation, exotic species, wetland degradation, hydro-development projects, fisheries exploitation, and pollution all pose serious threats to African lakes, rivers, and wetlands. . . . This book provides a synthesis of the state of our knowledge of selected ecosystems in Africa and indicates the desperate need for sustained, intensive, and extensive research into the workings of these understudied systems."--Patrick Osborne, International Center for Tropical Ecology
"An important asset of this work is the integration of the freshwater resources into the complex fabric of social...