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Book SynopsisThis edited 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. In each chapter one or more of the key tenets of environment, policy and structural land use change provides the central element around which the sustainable livelihoods theme is considered. Although the focus of the book is the Kalahari, introductory and concluding chapters, in turn, contextualise the research and discuss key enviro-development issues which resonate across the individual chapters with relevance for wider global debates.
Trade Review... would make a good undergraduate reading source ... What is new is the breadth of data this book delivers on such a complex subject. * Progress in Development Studies *
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
Table of Contents1. Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments ; 2. Sand, Grass, Thorns, and ... Cattle: the Modern Kalahari Environment ; 3. Politics, Policy, and Livelihoods in the Kalahari ; 4. The Impact of Cattle-Keeping on the Wildlife, Vegetation, and Veld Products of the Kalahari ; 5. Ecological Change in Kalahari Rangelands: Permanent or Reversable? ; 6. Environmental Change, Entitlements, and Poverty in Kalahari Pastoral Systems ; 7. Entitled to a Living: Opportunity and Diversity in the Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas ; 8. Coping with Uncertainty: Adaptive Responses to Drought and Livestock Disease in the Northern Kalahari ; 9. Drought as a 'revolutionary crisis': an Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari ; 10. Local Lessons for Global Problems Contributions to Global Debates from the Kalahari
