Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique

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This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique.While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosystem destruction, land degradation and natural resource over-exploitation in Africa and beyond. Never losing sight of the major causes of environment and resource mismanagement in Mozambique, the book advances the thesis that environment and resource problems are a result of compound factors such as poor governance, poverty, corruption, low education levels, and disregard of endogenous conservation epistemologies. A combination of all these factors makes the whole terrain of conservation even more complicated than ever; hence the need for urgent action by all social actors. This is a valuable book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers, social ecologists, environmental anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, practitioners and students of conservation sciences. MUNYARADZI MAWERE is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Universidade Pedagogica, Mozambique. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Mawere is a former lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and has published extensively in the areas of culture, environmental studies, ethics, education and knowledge studies. Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon ...