Coming Back to Earth

Coming Back to Earth
Author: James Clarke
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781919777931

This book is a current, comprehensive and holistic assessment of the challenges facing a developing African state within the global context and is an up-to-the-minute review of the state of the South African environment.

Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa

Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa
Author: Regis Musavengane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2022-05-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000585352

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies.

Environmental Security in Southern Africa

Environmental Security in Southern Africa
Author: Daniel S. Tevera
Publisher: Southern Africa Printing & Publishing House
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Environmental security research in Southern Africa is a young and eclectic academic endeavour, quite rare in university curricular. This book represents a methodological framework for policy research on environmental security in the SADC region. The framework attempts to develop analytical approaches which can capture inter-state environmental problems, conflicts and competition which have been recently growing in the region, and identify ways in which inter-state collaboration can promote mutually beneficial enviromental policy development. Amongst the major issues addressed is the vexed question of land.

Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa

Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa
Author: M.A. Mohamed Salih
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349276936

Caught between underdevelopment, poverty and environmental degradation, and the need for exploiting their natural resources for development, Africa has, during the last two decades, been engaged in a serious effort to integrate environment and development. The nine case studies (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia) presented in this book explore the complexity involved in environmental planning and policy in one of the World's poorest regions. The authors articulate an informed debate, with new conclusions and alternative policy recommendations.

Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa

Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa
Author: Steffen Bauer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2015-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136542027

Adverse climate impacts are already evident across Southern Africa and pose a serious threat to the development prospects of the region's societies. Sustainable development in this region will depend on the rapid development and implementation of effective adaptation measures. This volume identifies the new socioeconomic and political boundaries to development that result from ongoing climate change in Southern Africa. The collected papers explore the region's potential for a transition to development strategies that combine meaningful socioeconomic investment and adaptation measures while also improving livelihoods in the region. The chapters are backed up by detailed case studies which underscore the urgent need for national governments and multilateral agencies to develop strategies to support Southern Africa's societies in adapting to climate change.