African Issues

Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment

By: Melissa Leach (Editor), Robin Mearns (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 January 1996

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This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups. The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones. MELISSA LEACH & ROBIN MEARNS are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press

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The title says it all. The collection of essays in this fine book sets out to demolish the myths, half-truths and downright falsehoods that have shaped thinking and policy-making on the African environment over the last few decades....It is always fun to see idols being knocked from their pedestals, though rather disturbing to see a whole gallery of them smashed at once. The authors would not wish us to conclude that there are no serious environmental problems in Africa. But they do urge us to be much more critical about environmental diagnoses, and the data on which they are based. Above all, we should probe the motives of those who propound, accept, and act upon narratives that are unproven and unsound. DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW ... a book of great authority which makes for fascinating reading. New as it is, it has already become a basic text for my third and fourth year classes. - Phillip N. Bradley in JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ...an engaging work which aims principally to abolish the existing myths surrounding the African environment by questioning the reasons behind those myths. THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW ...it should be required reading by administrators, managers and students on a wide variety of land-use, development and environmental policy courses. COMMONWEALTH FORESTRY

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Economics Environmental Economics Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Engineering & Technology

Agriculture & Farming Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Environmental Science Public Administration History & Criticism of Literature

Environmental
Change and Policy: Challenging the Received Wisdom, the editors
Range Management Science
Policy in Southern Africa
Soil Erosion, Animals, Pasture over the Longer Term
Desertification: Narratives, Winners, Losers
Wildlife, Pastoralists, Science in Tanzania
Katherine Homewood, Rethinking the Forest-Savanna Mosaic in West Africa
Melissa Leach, Dryland Forestry in Nigeria
Soil Erosion
Irrigation, Erosion, Famine in Kenya
Land, Capital, the "Resource-poor" Farmer
The Cultural Construction of Environment Policy in Ethiopia
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