Environmental conservation through ubuntu and other emerging perspectives / Munyaradzi, Mawere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mawere, Munyaradzi.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Africa.

Nature conservation.

Conservation of natural resources--Africa.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiv, 150 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and environmental problems that Africa is facing. Due to the lasting impacts of colonialism and therefore Western scientism on Africa, at the core of the conservation dilemma lies the conflict between scientific conservation epistemologies and 'local'/'indigenous' conservation epistemologies with the latter being the locals' potential workable solution to the environmental problems haunting the continent. It is in view of these circumstances that this book was born. The book is a clarion call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous conservation and management epistemologies, not as a challenge to Western scientific conservation epistemologies, but to complement efforts by Western science in easing the tapestry of environmental problems that haunt Africa and the rest of the world. This is a valuable book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers, political/social ecologists, environmentalists, environmental anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, and practitioners and students of conservation sciences.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

Environment Conservation through Ubuntu and Other Emerging Perspectives : An Introduction

Pre-colonial Environmental Conservation and Management Strategies in Africa : A Brief Overview

Environment conservation in Africa : From the Dawn of Colonialism

Re-theorizing the environment conservation debate in Zimbabwe

'Ubuntu/unhu' and Environmental Conservation in Africa : A Remedy to the Current Conservation Crisis?

Leveraging Sustainable Environmental Conservation and Management in Africa : Other Emerging Perspectives from Within

Bibliography.

Notes:

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 21, 2014).

ISBN:

9789956791668

9956791660

OCLC:

880354752