Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa

Caught between underdevelopment, poverty and environmental degradation, and the need for exploiting their natural resources for development, Africa has, during the last two decades, been engaged in a serious effort to integrate environment and development. The nine case studies (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia) presented in this book explore the complexity involved in environmental planning and policy in one of the World's poorest regions. The authors articulate an informed debate, with new conclusions and alternative policy recommendations.

HASSAN AHMED ABDEL ATI PhD in Development Studies, University of Wales, Swansea, UK NADIR M. AWAD PhD in Biology, University of North Carolina HARRY N. WEZA CHABWELA Lecturer at the School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia MICHAEL B. K. DARKOH Professor of Geography at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Botswana, Gabarone SENGENDO HANNINGTON Head of Geography Department, Makere University, Uganda KIFLE LEMMA Head of the Environmental Protection Policy and Legislation Department of the Environmental Protection Authority (Ethiopia) and Director of the National Conservation Strategy Secretariat MESHECK KAPILA Land Resources Conservation Officer at the Department of Land Resources and Conservation MAKOALA V. MARAKE PhD in Water Management, University of Nebraska, USA WELBON MWAFONGO Senior Lecturer in Environmental/Social Geography at Chancellor College, University of Malawi RAPHAEL MWALYOSI Professor of Ecology at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania JUSTUS INONDA MWANJE Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science, Kenyatta University POLILE A. MOLUMELI Lecturer at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho PAUL MUSALI Taught at Makera University, Uganda HUSSEIN SOSOVELE Research Fellow at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania DAVISON D. THEO Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Zambia and Board Member of the African Academic of Science and Arts WELLINGTON NGUYA WAMICHA Chair of the Department of Environmental Science, Kenyatta University