AbstractEnvironmental practitioners open a window onto environmental challenges in diverse African contexts. Non-specialists and scholars can see how Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, take up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts; Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with NGOs try to produce sustainably for household and international markets, and government-civil society partnerships in South Africa introduce a focus on environment and human rights in the national school curriculum. Other contributions from South Africa, Angola, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe cover industry reporting, environmental management, research, philosophy, the media, conservation, the seeking out of indigenous knowledge. Case studies and reviews of progress since the 1992 Earth Summit are included.
VerlagsinfoWritten by environmental practitioners from across the region, the Monograph is a window onto environmental challenges in a diversity of African contexts. These contexts include Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, taking up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts; Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with NGOs trying to produce sustainably for the household and the international market; and government-civil society partnerships in South Africa, where the political transformation of the education system introduced a focus on environment and human rights in the national school curriculum.
Other contributions from South Africa, Angola, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe, open onto yet more contexts of environmental practice: industry reporting, environmental management, research, philosophy, the media, conservation, the seeking out of indigenous knowledge.
This collection of papers provides non-specialists and scholars alike with:
Case studies and reviews of progress since the 1992 Earth Summit
A window on the scope of responses to environmental issues in Africa
Insight into contextual realities in Southern Africa and beyond (contributions from Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Uganda)
Illumination of the complex challenges we face - practical, political, epistemological - as we attempt to engage one of the biggest social transformations of our time
Application of social theory that reveals the need for re-thinking assumptions about the advancement and horizons of this change called, for the time being, 'sustainable development'.
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