African Savannas
Subtitle: Global Narratives & Local Knowledge of Environmental Change
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: May 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780325071282
Subjects: African history; American history; Economics, Finance, Business and Industry; History; Nature; History: American; Africa; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Natural Resources; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Africa - General; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Environmental policy; Land use; Savanna ecology
Description: In an interdisciplinary collection of essays collaborative research findings are cited to reveal the extent to which the savannas are being degraded causing chaos in the huge areas affected. The findings show that such degradation has not occurred and that such long-held views are based on faulty thinking.