The Environmental Crunch in Africa

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Provides a critical overview of the challenges & problems of environmental-ecological conditions in Africa Discusses how to address the environmental problems a growing African economy is causing Examines the effects current political-economic policies have on local communities in Africa

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Jon Abbink is senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden and professor of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main interests are political anthropology, developmentalism in Africa, the ethnology and cultural history of (Southwest) Ethiopia, and religious culture and the public sphere in the Horn of Africa. Recent books are the co-edited Anthropology of Elites, the co-authored Suri Orature, and A Decade of Ethiopia: Politics, Economy and Society 2004-2016.

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