| Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique Contributor(s): Mawere, Munyaradzi (Author) |
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ISBN: 995679077X ISBN-13: 9789956790777 Publisher: Langaa RPCID OUR PRICE: $45.98 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development |
| Dewey: 333.72 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5" W x 8" (0.51 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosystem destruction, land degradation and natural resource over-exploitation in Africa and beyond. Never losing sight of the major causes of environment and resource mismanagement in Mozambique, the book advances the thesis that environment and resource problems are a result of compound factors such as poor governance, poverty, corruption, low education levels, and disregard of endogenous conservation epistemologies. A combination of all these factors makes the whole terrain of conservation even more complicated than ever; hence the need for urgent action by all social actors. This is a valuable book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers, social ecologists, environmental anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, practitioners and students of conservation sciences. |