Table Of Contents:
Preface
Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed Ahmed, Executive Secretary OSSREA

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List of Tables

Introduction: Elements of Local Environmental Change and Society
M.A Mohamed Salih

Human Health and Irrigation Development in Kenya
Samson Wokabi Mwangi

Choice and Use of Rural Water Supply Systems: Environmental and Socio-Cultural Dimension
Wilson Nyaoro

Technology Change and Gender: Irrigated Agriculture and Peasant Women in Eastern Uganda
Zie Gariyo

Agricultural Land Management for Sustainable Production, Swaziland
Paul S. Maro

Price and Market Liberalisation Effect on Household Food Security: A Gender Sensitive Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Uganda
Henry Manyire

Structural Adjustment, Energy Crisis and Environment: A Comparative Gender Study of Rural and Urban Households
Fuuna Peter

Air Pollution in Addis Ababa: The Predicament of "Chile Sefer"
Edlam Aberra

Climate Change and Local Vulnerability
M. A. Mohamed Salih

Notes on Contributors

Abstract:

Compilation of papers that deal specifically with local environmental change. By focusing on local environmental change and society, they offer an opportunity to obtain a comparative perspective on topics pushed aside by an apparent interest in global environmental issues. The case studies presented in this book illustrate how environmental degradation has contributed to the distortion of local institutions and economies, thus denying local communities the right to eke out their living in a productive and healthy environment. The contributors highlight the seriousness of the difficulties involved in conflating national policies and local reality, and imposing global policy instruments on local communities. Understandably, the case studies demonstrate that local communities resist putting their faith in environmental policies and plan imposed on them by global or national institutions that often deprive them of access to and control over their local environment.