Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land

Download or read book Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land written by James McCann and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text confronts the alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining two centuries of historical evidence of environmental change. It presents African landscapes as created by humans, not as some idealized notion of Eden. Key topics covered include: the effects of population growth; disease; agricultural change; the state of natural resources; and the role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes. North America: Heinemann