African Environments and Resources

<p>First published in 1988 this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. </p><p>Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of Africa the authors also provide to the evolution of the management of resources and then details a broadly defined ecosystem approach in which major environmental resource issues are identified and addressed in the tropical rainforest the Savannah dry-forest the arid and semi-arid areas the highlands and the extra-tropical zones of Northern and Southern Africa. </p><p>The book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of African environmental and resource-management problems and this reissue should be welcomed by students of Africa and of environmental resource management problems in general.</p>