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Environmental Policies and NGO Influence Susan Carr

Environmental Policies and NGO Influence By Susan Carr

Environmental Policies and NGO Influence by Susan Carr


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This volume examines important case-studies such as NGO campaigns for sustainable water management in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Nigeria and opposition to the fencing of rangelands in Botswana.

Environmental Policies and NGO Influence Summary

Environmental Policies and NGO Influence: Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa by Susan Carr

This book examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may exert influence on policies to conserve and sustainably use natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa. The book is unique in bringing together NGO campaigners in three African countries with academics specialising in development studies, systems and environmental policy.

About Susan Carr

Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Deveopment Policy and Practice at the Open University. His previous publications include the Third World Atlas and Finding out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development.
Susan Carr is Senior Lecturer in Systems at the Open University. Her previous publications include Practical Conservation: Urban Habitats and Practical Conservation: Boundary Habitats.
David Humphreys is Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Open University. His previous publications include Forest Politics: The Evolution of International Cooperation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 NGOs and their influence on environmental policies in Africa, ThomasAlan; Chapter 2 Land degradation and sustainable resource management in an African context, DavidHumphreys, SusanCarr; Chapter 3 NGO influence at the International Negotiating Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification, SusanCarr, AlanThomas, EnochOkpara, RogerMpande, DavidHumphreys; Chapter 4 Challenging maize, DerekGunby; Chapter 5 The campaign for water from the Zambezi for Bulawayo, DerekGunby, RogerMpande, AlanMpande; Chapter 6 The policy of fencing Botswana's communal rangelands, OnalennaSelolwane; Chapter 7 The campaign against the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project, AlanThomas, OnalennaSelolwane, DavidHumphreys; Chapter 8 An NGO campaign to protect the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands in Northern Nigeria, SusanCarr, ObasiOgbonnaya; Chapter 9 The Ogoni people's campaign over oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, Susan Carr, Oronto Douglas, Uche Onyeagucha; Chapter 10 Influence thrust upon them? NGOs' role in public action on the environment in Africa, AlanThomas, DavidHumphreys, SusanCarr; Annex Index;

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NPB9780415189637
9780415189637
0415189632
Environmental Policies and NGO Influence: Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa by Susan Carr
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-09-14
220
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