The Politics of Deforestation in Africa - Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda

This book explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa. Specifically, this project explains the gap between intent and impact of forest policies, focusing on three African societies facing persistent deforestation today: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda. The central claim of the study is that deforestation persists because conservation policies and projects, which are largely underwritten by foreign donors, consistently ignore the fact that conservation is possible only under limited and specific conditions. To make the case, the author examines how decision-making power is negotiated and exercised where communities make environmental decisions daily (local level) and where environmental policies are negotiated and enacted (national level) across three distinct African political systems.

List of contents

1. Why Deforestation Persists in Africa: Actors, Interests, Institutions, and Interest Alignment.- 2. Seeing Like a Farmer: Resource Politics at the Community Level.- 3. Executive Branches and Trees: Environmental Politics at the National Level.- 4. Across the Great Divide: Collaborative Forest Management.- 5. Epilogue.

About the author

Nadia Horning is Associate Professor, Director of African Studies, and Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College, USA. 

Summary

Explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa.
Explains the gap between intent and impact of forest policies in Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Brings to light the often overlooked perspectives of African farmers who are affected by environmental policies.

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Rabesahala Horning
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030083014
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3008301-4
• No. of pages: 183
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 211 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Illustrations: XV, 183 p. 7 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Afrika, B, Sustainability, Economic Policy, Africa, Regional Development, Social Change, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Development policy, African Politics, Development Studies, Development and Social Change, Development and Sustainability, Economic development—Environmental aspects, Africa—Politics and government