Research Catalog

Title

People and land in Africa south of the Sahara; readings in social geography. Edited by R. Mansell Prothero.

Author

Prothero, R. Mansell

Publication

New York, Oxford University Press, 1972.

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Details

Description

iv, 344 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Land use > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Land use
• Population
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sozialgeografie
• Land classification and use > Africa
• Economic geography > Africa
• Land use > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Population
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Afrika
• Zentralafrika
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Population

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [335]-341.

Contents

Introduction: Relationships Between People and Land -- Population-Land Relationships: The Physical Environment -- Change of Regional Balance in the Bukoba District of Tanganyika / D.N. McMAsTER -- Savanna and Forest in Western Nigeria / W.B. MORGAN & R.P. Moss -- Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation / P.W. PORTER -- Some Observations on Desiccation in North-Western Nigeria / R.M. PROTHERO -- Livestock Trypanosomiasis and Human Settlement in Northeastern Uganda / W. DESHLER -- Population-Land Relationships: Adjustment -- Land and Population Pressure in the Kano Close-Settled Zone, Northern Nigeria / M.J. MORTIMORE -- Farming Practice, Settlement Pattern and Population Density in South-Eastern Nigeria / W.B. MORGAN -- Cocoa Migration and Patterns of Land Ownership in the Densu Valley near Suhum, Ghana / J.M. HUNTER -- A Study of Tribal Re-adjustment in the Nile Valley: The Experience of the Ingessana / H.R.J. DAVIES -- Irrigation in the Sudan: Its Growth, Distribution and Potential Extension / K.M. BARBOUR -- Population-Land Relationships: Maladjustment -- Land Use Patterns and Agricultural Migration in Central Ghana (Western Gonja) / W. MANSHARD -- Population Pressure in a Part of the West African Savanna: A Study of Nangodi, Northeast Ghana / J.M. HUNTER -- Land and Population in West Nile District, Uganda / J.F.M. MIDDLETON & D.J. GREENLAND -- Types of Food Shortages in Tanzania / C. BROOKE -- Population-Land Relationships: European Infiuences -- The Influence of European Contacts on the Landscape of Southern Nigeria / W.B. MORGAN -- The "White Highlands" of Kenya / W.T.W. MORGAN -- Land Apportionment in Southern Rhodesia / B.N. FLOYD -- Overpopulation and Overstocking in the Native Areas of Matabeleland / J.R.V. PRESCOTT -- Population Patterns and Policies in South Africa, 1951-1960 / T.J.D. FAIR & N.M. SHAFFER -- Population-Land Relationships: Readjustment -- The Decolonization of the White Highlands of Kenya / N.S. CAREY JONES -- Resettlement and Land Use Planning in Zambia: The Chipangali Scheme / G. KAY -- Population-Land Relationships: Evaluation -- Ascertaining Population Carrying Capacity under Traditional Systems of Agriculture in Developing Countries / J.M. HUNTER -- How Much Land Does a Man Require? / W. ALLAN -- Man Against His Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework / P.R. GOULD -- Toward a Model of Population-Land Relationships -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0195012879
• 9780195012873

LCCN

72082995

OCLC

• ocm00297907
• 297907
• SCSB-215858

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library