Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use

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Title:	Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use
Author:	Richards, Paul
Year:	1983
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	26
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	1-72
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Africa
Subjects:	environment land use agricultural land Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Health and Nutrition
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/524173
Abstract:	This essay explores ground common to ecology and politics and addresses the question to what extent and in what ways are ecological ideas political ideas. The discussion, divided into five main sections, endeavors to steer a course between the pitfalls of environmental determinism on the one hand and economic reductionism on the other. Sections: 1. Models of changing Population-land relationships in Africa - 2. The ecology of health and disease - 3. The ecology of African land use - 4. Evironmental hazards and ecological crisis in Africa - 5. The politics of ecological knowledge. Notes, ref. tab.