The Politics of Deforestation in Africa Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda /

• Main Author: Horning, Nadia Rabesahala (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Social change.; Economic policy.; African Politics.; Regional Development.; Development and Sustainability.; Development and Social Change.; Development Policy.

This book explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa. Specifically, this project explains the gap between intent and impact of forest policies, focusing on three African societies facing persistent deforestation today: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda. The central claim of t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why Deforestation Persists in Africa: Actors, Interests, Institutions, and Interest Alignment
• 2. Seeing Like a Farmer: Resource Politics at the Community Level
• 3. Executive Branches and Trees: Environmental Politics at the National Level
• 4. Across the Great Divide: Collaborative Forest Management
• 5. Epilogue.