{"product_id":"environmental-change-and-african-societies-9789004410831","title":"Environmental Change and African Societies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and\/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy.   Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  List of Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Environmental Change and African Societies  Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermann    Part 1  Ideas  1 To See or Not to See: On the ‘Absence’ of Climate Change (Discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania  Sara de Wit  2 Perspectives on Climate Change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000  Vimbai Kwashirai    Part 2  Past  3 Environmental and Climate Change in Africa: Global Drought and Local Environmental Infrastructure  Emmanuel Kreike  4 Shamba Forestry in Colonial Kenya: Colonial Dominance or African Opportunity?  Ben Fanstone    Part 3  Present  5 I’m Staying! Climate Variability and Circular Migration in Burkina Faso  Jonas Østergaard Nielsen  6 Living with a Changing Climate in sub-Saharan Africa: More of the Same  Joy Clancy  7 Sustainable Mauritius? Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainable Development in a Small Island State in the Indian Ocean  Laura Jeffery  8 Transformative Learning for Global Change? Reflections on the wascal Master Programme in Climate Change and Education in the Gambia  Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambo    Part 4  Prospects  9 Africa in Transition: What Role for the Environment?  Ton Dietz  10 Africa’s High Modernism: Historical Ecologies of Climate Change and Hydrologies of Watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi)  James C. McCann  11 Increasing Urbanisation and the Role of Green Spaces in Urban Climate Resilience in Africa  Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo- Concha, and Manfred Denich    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210782564695,"sku":"9789004410831","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/environmental-change-and-african-societies-9789004410831","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}