Environmental
Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern Africa
Abstract
Mohamed-Salih, M.A.; Tedla S.[Shibru Tedla] (eds.)
Environmental planning, policies and politics in Eastern and Southern Africa
OSSREA, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). 1999. xii + 201p. Basingstoke (UK): Macmillan
Press Ltd.
Assesses
the scope and performance of politics, policies and planning in environmental
and natural resources management in Eastern and Southern Africa, with chapters
that analyze the experiences in nine countries in the region and that highlight
a lack of policies, a lack of resources to effectively implement policies,
fragmented policies or agencies' mandates, incoherent overall approaches, a lack
of participation in policy formulation and subsequent ownership of policies, and
other constraints that have plagued development efforts; the belief that
understanding the impediments to formulating and implementing adequate policies
will help in tearing down these barriers; and the importance of developing,
polishing, adapting and implementing policies and instruments in a way that does
justice to the specifics of the contexts in which they are to re applied. The
chapters are titled: "Environmental planning, policies and politics in
Eastern and Southern Africa", "National environmental management in
Ethiopia: In search of people's space", "National resource management
policies in Kenya: The politics within", "Environmental management in
Malawi: Lessons from failure", "Environmental management in Lesotho:
The limitations of legal instruments", "Effectiveness of environmental
planning in Sudan", "National environmental policies in Tanzania:
Processes and politics", "Environmental management in Uganda: A
critique", "Environmental conservation planning in Zambia", and
"Desertification and environmental management in Botswana".