Africa environment outlook
Subtitle: case studies : human vulnerability to environmental change
Contributors: United Nations Environment Programme.
Publisher: published by Earthprint Limited on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Africa; Africa -- Environmental conditions
Other titles: Human vulnerability to environmental change; Africa environment outlook. 2002.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A complement to the Africa environment outlook report (2002).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Case studies illustrating environmental change and its impact on human vulnerability: case study 1. Communal conflicts in Darfur region, Western Sudan ; case study 2. Impact of environmental change on human vulnerability in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda ; case study 3. Environmental change and the vulnerability of pastoralists to drought: the Maasai in Amboseli, Kenya ; case study 4. Deforestation as a cause of human vulnerability: communities living near the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon ; case study 5. Lake Vicroria: a case study of complex interrelationships ; case study 6. The consequences of hasty industrialization in Saldanha Bay, South Africa; title: pt. 2. Case studies showing interventions to control environmental degredation and reduce human vulnerability: case study 7. Reducing vulnerability of herders in the Eastern region of Morocco ; case study 8. The role of community wildlife-based enterprises in reducing human vulnerability: the Il Ngwesi Ecotourism Project, Kenya ; case study 9. Land degredation and human vulnerability in the drylands of northern Namibia ; case study 10. Decreasing human vulnerability in Manchieyt Nasser, Cairo, Egypt ; case study 11. Cyclone early warning systems in the Western Indian Ocean ; case study 12. Malaria control in Mauritius.