Environmental Change and African Societies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41083-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Climate and Culture

The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy.

Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tischler, Julia

Haltermann, Ingo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Environmental Change and African Societies

Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermann

Part 1

Ideas

1 To See or Not to See: On the ‘Absence’ of Climate Change (Discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania

Sara de Wit

2 Perspectives on Climate Change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000

Vimbai Kwashirai

Part 2

Past

3 Environmental and Climate Change in Africa: Global Drought and Local Environmental Infrastructure

Emmanuel Kreike

4 Shamba Forestry in Colonial Kenya: Colonial Dominance or African Opportunity?

Ben Fanstone

Part 3

Present

5 I’m Staying! Climate Variability and Circular Migration in Burkina Faso

Jonas Østergaard Nielsen

6 Living with a Changing Climate in sub-Saharan Africa: More of the Same

Joy Clancy

7 Sustainable Mauritius? Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainable Development in a Small Island State in the Indian Ocean

Laura Jeffery

8 Transformative Learning for Global Change? Reflections on the wascal Master Programme in Climate Change and Education in the Gambia

Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambo

Part 4

Prospects

9 Africa in Transition: What Role for the Environment?

Ton Dietz

10 Africa’s High Modernism: Historical Ecologies of Climate Change and Hydrologies of Watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi)

James C. McCann

11 Increasing Urbanisation and the Role of Green Spaces in Urban Climate Resilience in Africa

Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo- Concha, and Manfred Denich

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ingo Haltermann, geographer and freelance editor, especially engages in projects dealing with the perception of and response to climate change. Amongst others he published The Perception of Natural Hazards in the Context of Human (In-)Security (Peter Lang, 2012).

Julia Tischler is Assistant Professor of African History at Basel University, Switzerland, and author of Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation. The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation (Palgrave, 2013). Her research focusses on Southern Africa, development, and environmental history.