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Population and development projects in Africa
- Title
- Population and development projects in Africa / edited by John I. Clarke, Mustafa Khogali, Leszek A. Kosiński for International Geographical Union, Commission on Population Geography.
- Publication
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HB2121.A3 P67 1985 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 329 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- Articles, comparison of the impact of development projects on population dynamics and rural development trends in Sudan and other African countries - discusses rural urban disparity, social implications of internal migration and deliberate rural population geographic distribution, land settlement schemes to increase self reliance among refugees and nomads, forced population removals under Apartheid, etc.; examines changing agrarian structures and labour demand in response to drought vs. Increased water supply. Bibliography, graphs.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- graph.
- bibliographie.
- graphique.
- bibliografía.
- gráfico.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine derived contents note: List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1. The demographic background to development in Africa Aderanti Adepoju and John I. Clarke; 2. Development projects and their demographic impact Leszek A. Kosi?ski; 3. Conceptualisation of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution Abdul Aziz M. Farah, Lufti A. Desougi and Anne M. Lewandowski; 4. Capitalism and the population landscape Galal el-Din el-Tayeb; 5. Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment El Watig Mohamed Kameir and Zeinab B. El Bakri; 6. Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency? John R. Rogge; 7. Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958-80 Adrian P. Wood; 8. Populating Uganda's dry lands John B. Kabera; 9. Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagisation programme Michael McCall; 10. Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania Ian Thomas; 11. Communal villages and the distribution on the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique Manuel G. M. De Araj︢o; 12. A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi Adrian P. Wood; 13. Resettlement and under-development in the Black 'Homelands' of South Africa C. M. Rogerson and E. M. Letsoalo; 14. Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria Aderanti Adpoju; 15. Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana George Benneh; 16. Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan Abdul Aziz M. Farah; 17. A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin; 18. Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed and Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin; 19. The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution Babiker Abdalla Abdel Rahman and Amna Beshir Homoudi; 20. Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme Mohammed Osman El Sammani; 21. The Gash Delta: labour organisation in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production Hassan Mohomed Salih; 22. The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan Mahgoub O. Gaafar and K. V. Ramachandran; 23. The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan L. R. Mills; Index.
- ISBN
- 0521305276
- 9780521305273
- 9780521125611
- 0521125618
- LCCN
- 84029323
- OCLC
- ocm11649484
- 11649484
- SCSB-624145
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library