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> <p>1. African Environments and resources: An Overview 2. The African Environment: An Historical Overview 3. The Patterns of Political Change: Relationship to the Environment 4. Tropical Rainforest Environments 5. The Dry Areas 6. The Savanna and Dry-forest Environments 7. The Highlands 8. Extratropical and Southern Africa 9. Water: A Scarce Resource 10. Urban and Industrial Growth 11. Minerals, industry and the Environment 12. Environment and Development in Africa: A Review and Prospect </p>