The lie of the land : challenging received wisdom on the African environment
This work questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. It asks how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are, drawing together and exploring 12 key cases.
256 pages ; 22 cm.
9780852554104, 9780852554098, 0852554109, 0852554095
865055383
Part One Present position: return to 1973 and colonial economic relations; lost in Bretton Woods; the power of the global superstate; there are alternatives. Part Two Intractable contradictions: stabilization versus rebuilding; donor rhetoric versus donor actions; greed versus need. Part Three What way forward?: donors could practise what they preach, but they won't; who benefits?; can Mozambique be allowed its own vision?
Published in association with the International African Institute