Overview

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustainability in the context of the Kalahari environment of southern Africa, a region subject to marked spatial and temporal natural variability. Each chapter is written by an active Kalahari researcher and addresses, from an environmental or a social perspective, the implications of different policies for rural livelihoods and coping strategies. In each chapter one or more of the key tenets of environment, policy and structural land use change provides the central element around which the sustainable livelihoods theme is considered. Although the focus of the book is the Kalahari, introductory and concluding chapters, in turn, contextualise the research and discuss key enviro-development issues which resonate across the individual chapters with relevance for wider global debates.

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Author:   Deborah Sporton (, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) ,  David S. G. Thomas (, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9780198234197

ISBN 10:   0198234198
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   11 July 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: David S.G. Thomas and Deborah Sporton: Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments 2: David S.G. Thomas: Sand, Grass, Thorns, and ... Cattle: the Modern Kalahari Environment 3: Deborah Sporton and Chasca Twyman: Politics, Policy, and Livelihoods in the Kalahari 4: Jeremy S. Perkins, G. Stuart-Hill, and B. Kgabung: The Impact of Cattle-Keeping on the Wildlife, Vegetation, and Veld Products of the Kalahari 5: Andrew Dougill: Ecological Change in Kalahari Rangelands: Permanent or Reversable? 6: Deborah Sporton and David S.G. Thomas: Environmental Change, Entitlements, and Poverty in Kalahari Pastoral Systems 7: Chasca Twyman: Entitled to a Living: Opportunity and Diversity in the Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas 8: Robert K. Hitchcock: Coping with Uncertainty: Adaptive Responses to Drought and Livestock Disease in the Northern Kalahari 9: Jacqueline S. Solway: Drought as a 'revolutionary crisis': an Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari 10: Deborah Sporton and David S.G. Thomas: Local Lessons for Global Problems Contributions to Global Debates from the Kalahari

Reviews

`This disturbing book should be compulsory reading for all those engaged in rural development and poverty alleviation.' Helen K. Watson, University of Natal

... would make a good undergraduate reading source ... What is new is the breadth of data this book delivers on such a complex subject. Progress in Development Studies Sporton and Thomas have produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking volumes that would certainly be purchased by reseachers and policy generators concerned with development and the environment in semiarid rangelands as a whole. Micheal Meadows, Land Degradation and Development V 15 Number 4, 2004

`This disturbing book should be compulsory reading for all those engaged in rural development and poverty alleviation.' Helen K. Watson, University of Natal

... would make a good undergraduate reading source ... What is new is the breadth of data this book delivers on such a complex subject. Progress in Development Studies Sporton and Thomas have produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking volumes that would certainly be purchased by reseachers and policy generators concerned with development and the environment in semiarid rangelands as a whole. Micheal Meadows, Land Degradation and Development V 15 Number 4, 2004

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