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Environmental Security in Africa: Conflicts, Politics, and Development investigates the nature, scope, and dimension of environmental security in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective to examines the history, theories, spatial patterns, sociocultural, socioeconomic consequences, and legal ramifications of Africa’s environmental concerns. This book is grounded in theories that cut across the social, behavioral, and environmental sciences, arguing that environmental security is a multifaceted subject intricately linked to global climate change and magnified by globalization. Drawing from case studies across different parts of Africa, Elisha Jasper Dung, Leonard Sitji Bombom, Augustine Avwunudiogba, and the contributors argue that the integral part of the solution to Africa’s environmental security issues are entrenched in victims' local, regional, social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances in specific geographical locations, such as Nigeria, Northeast Africa, Kenya, and South Sudan. Comprised of 17 chapters, this book provides a unique perspective that facilitates understanding the complex problem of environmental security and its sundry ramifications for scholars and policymakers.

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Environmental security remains vulnerable to definitional pluralism. Elisha Jasper Dung, Leonard Sitji Bombom, and Augustine Avwunudiogba capture the clouded concept clearly by conceiving environmental security in terms of threats to human production in Africa when natural and human-constructed spaces are not safeguarded. The confluence of politics and development, along with its impact on environmental security, represents a critical vector in the face of unresolved conflicts and obstreperous natural processes—such as climate change—that can further endanger both human production and the life-supporting capabilities of the environment. Without in-depth analysis, as demonstrated in this book, it becomes difficult to understand the correlates of environmental security in poorly explored contexts. This book will be a great source worldwide for scholars and practitioners in African studies, political science, public affairs and public policy, sociology, and environmental science. -- Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde, Clark Atlanta University This is a significant book on environmental security in Africa. This edited volume captures the historical, socioeconomic, cultural, and political aspects of environmental challenges in Africa in seventeen scrutinized chapters. Elisha Jasper Dung, Leonard Sitji Bombom and Augustine Avwunudiogba and the contributors thoroughly explore the problem of environmental security from diverse theoretical perspectives established within socio-cultural, environmental, and spatial perspectives. The multidisciplinary nature of this book shines, probing insights into this existential problem in Africa. This makes it an essential read for all stakeholders interested in further understanding and finding solutions to Africa's environmental security problem. -- Daniel Davou Dabi, University of Jos

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Elisha Jasper Dung is professor and coordinator of geography in the Department of Advancement Studies at Alabama State University. Leonard Sitji Bombom is associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Jos. Augustine Avwunudiogba is professor of geography and environmental resources in the Department of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Resources at California State University, Stanislaus.

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