Research Catalog

Title

Land management and survival / edited by Anders Hjort.

Publication

Uppsala, Sweden : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies ; Stockholm, Sweden : Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, c1985.

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Additional Authors

• Hjort, Anders, 1944-
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• Norway. Direktoratet for utviklingshjelp.

Description

148 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 0281-0018 ; 16

Uniform Title

Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies ; 16.

Subject

• Land use > Africa > Planning > Congresses
• Soil conservation > Africa > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers from a seminar sponsored by the Norwegian Agency for International Development.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : interdisciplinary views on land management and survival / Anders Hjort (7 p.). -- Understanding African food situations / Christer Krokfors (11 p.). -- Drought aid and interdisciplinary research / Jonas Björnerstedt (7 p.). -- Finland's development assistance and forestry projects / Göran Haldin (7 p.). -- Do we really learn from experience? : reflections on development efforts in Sukumaland, Tanzania / Per Brandström (16 p.). -- Different perspectives on the soil erosion complex in East African drylands / Carl Christiansson (6 p.).
• On anthropology and ecology : the prospects of sharing more than common shortcomings / Gudrun Dahl (7 p.). -- Theoretical and practical endeavour in dryland Africa : retrospect and prospect / Turi Hammer (7 p.). -- Land degradation and land productivity monitoring : needs for an integrated approach / Ulf Helldén (11 p.). -- Integration of physical and human geography in a geographical information system / Lennart Olsson (10 p.). -- Halting the spreading desert by means of forestry : does it make sense? : an attempt to analyze the role of forestry in the Sahel / Gunnar Poulsen (11 p.). -- Why do we need a scientific analysis of dryland degradation in Africa? / Anders Rapp (10 p.). -- Holistic view of ecological imbalance in drylands / Kjeld Rasmussen (9 p.). -- Socio-economic studies on fuelwood production in the Bura settlement scheme in Eastern Kenya / Arja Vainio-Mattila (10 p.). -- Some reflections on inter-disciplinary research / Espen Wœhle (6 p.).

ISBN

9171062440 :

LCCN

^^^86184783^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library