Understanding environmental policy processes : cases from Africa /

A critical analysis of the "post-Rio consensus" on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change "stick" with such tenacity. In exploring this, t...

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Auteur principal: Keeley, James
Autres auteurs: Scoones, Ian
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2003.
Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=108861
Table des matières:
  • Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Knowledge, Power and Politics: Environmental Policy Processes in Africa; Chapter 2: Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: a Conceptual Map; Chapter 3: Global Science, Global Policy: International Policy Processes in Africa; Chapter 4: Knowledge, Power and Politics: the Environmental Policy-making Process in Ethiopia; Chapter 5: Environmental Policy-making in Mali: Science, Bureaucracy and Soil Fertility Narratives; Chapter 6: Environmental Policy-making in Zimbabwe: Challenging the Technocracy?
  • Chapter 7: Spaces for Engagement: Science, Experts and CitizensNotes; References; Index.