Environmental Policies and NGO Influence (eBook, ePUB)

Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Redaktion: Carr, Susan; Thomas, Alan; Humphreys, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may exert influence on policies to conserve and sustainably use natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa. The book is unique in bringing together NGO campaigners in three African countries with academics specialising in development studies, systems and environmental policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135117023
• Artikelnr.: 42828322

Autorenporträt

Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Deveopment Policy and Practice at the Open University. His previous publications include the Third World Atlas and Finding out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development. Susan Carr is Senior Lecturer in Systems at the Open University. Her previous publications include Practical Conservation: Urban Habitats and Practical Conservation: Boundary Habitats. David Humphreys is Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Open University. His previous publications include Forest Politics: The Evolution of International Cooperation.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 NGOs and their influence on environmental policies in Africa
ThomasAlan; Chapter 2 Land degradation and sustainable resource management in an African context
DavidHumphreys
SusanCarr; Chapter 3 NGO influence at the International Negotiating Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification
SusanCarr
AlanThomas
EnochOkpara
RogerMpande
DavidHumphreys; Chapter 4 Challenging maize
DerekGunby; Chapter 5 The campaign for water from the Zambezi for Bulawayo
DerekGunby
RogerMpande
AlanMpande; Chapter 6 The policy of fencing Botswana's communal rangelands
OnalennaSelolwane; Chapter 7 The campaign against the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project
AlanThomas
OnalennaSelolwane
DavidHumphreys; Chapter 8 An NGO campaign to protect the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands in Northern Nigeria
SusanCarr
ObasiOgbonnaya; Chapter 9 The Ogoni people's campaign over oil exploitation in the Niger Delta
Susan Carr
Oronto Douglas
Uche Onyeagucha; Chapter 10 Influence thrust upon them? NGOs' role in public action on the environment in Africa
AlanThomas
DavidHumphreys
SusanCarr; Annex Index;