The rush of private agricultural investment and land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa since
the mid-2000s has raised the prospect of a resurgence of plantations and other forms of …

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and
development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it …

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political
independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the …

Landscapes are changing rapidly in regions where rural people live adjacent to protected
parks and reserves. This is the case in highland East Africa, where many parks are …

Migration is a major factor shaping protected area landscapes. Combining historical
narratives with interview, census, and satellite data, we investigate the ways in which …

Attempts by external agencies to intervene in the operation of local resource exploitation
strategies frequently include reference to historical arguments. These vary in accuracy and …

Conflict economies cannot be approached in isolation but must instead be contextualised
socially and historically. These economies did not emerge in vacuum, but are part and …

From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central
Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and …

Most research on attitudes to parks in sub-Saharan Africa has been in savannah regions
and areas of low population density. Expulsion, exclusion and the imposition of external …

The concept of resilience is now applied across the natural and social sciences to provide a
means of examining and understanding adaptation and transformation over a longer time …