Balancing Rocks: Environment and Development in ZimbabweCarlos Lopes Balancing Rocks tackles the environment issues affecting Zimbabwe, their consequences and solutions. The book is the first empirical attempt to assess Zimbabwe 's environmental linkages to development with the intention of reviewing policy for the future. It is a useful tool for all those interested in a discussion that goes beyond narrow academic or political agendas, and who understand that environment and development are fragile balancing rocks. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Population Growth Impact in a Sparse Resources Environment | 33 |
CHAPTER III | 51 |
CHAPTER IV | 69 |
Challenges For a Finer Conventional and Alternative Energy Use | 85 |
CHAPTER V | 115 |
CHAPTER VI | 122 |
The Role of Grassroots Movements in Conservation | 143 |
Zimbabwes Response to Agenda 21 | 167 |
Balancing The Rocks | 185 |
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Bibliography | 205 |
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Common terms and phrases
activities African Agenda 21 agricultural biogas Bulawayo centres cleaner production coal commercial communal and resettlement communal areas conservation committees consumption conventional energy deforestation Development Plan district councils drought economic effects electricity emissions Energy Resources energy sector Environment and Tourism environmental concerns environmental degradation environmental management environmental problems ESAP factors farmers farming framework fuels fuelwood Government of Zimbabwe grassroots Gweru Harare households human impact implementation important increased indigenous institutional investment irrigation issues labour land degradation land tenure land tenure systems legislation livestock LSCS major Manicaland Masvingo million mining Ministry of Environment Natural Region natural resources NGOs options organisations petroleum pollution population growth potential poverty programmes promote renewable energy resettlement areas resource conservation resource management result role rural areas Shona social soil sources strategy structural adjustment supply sustainable development tonnes UNCED UNDP urban utilisation Wankie Colliery waste wildlife Zambia Zimbabwe's Zimbabwean
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Wo die Elefanten tanzen, leidet das Gras: Staat und Entwicklung in Afrika Daniel Künzler No preview available - 2004 |