Product Description: Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades...read more

Bringing a message of hope this book looks at successful local strategies which are putting life back into the land in Africa, it draws on a wide range of case studies, and describes the gains in farming, forestry and woodfuel supply that have come about through a broader, people-centred approach to solving the woodfuel crisis. Huge efforts are needed to recover from the failure of the past but the authors show that important lessons are at last being learned and new roads to success can be mapped. The author also wrote "The Biocrats" and "A Low Energy Strategy for the UK".

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This work questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. It asks how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are, drawing together and exploring 12 key cases. (view table of contents)