Eastern and Southern Africa : Development Challenges in a Volatile Region.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- 1 Development challenges and debates in eastern and southern Africa -- Introduction -- Eastern and southern Africa: defining a diverse region -- Global political economy changes: regional perspectives -- Development challenges in the region -- Development theory and development debates -- 2 Demographic change in eastern and southern Africa -- Introduction -- Population size -- Mortality -- Age-sex structure -- Family structure -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Structural adjustment in eastern and southern Africa: the tragedy of development -- False dawn: a brief history of the first two decades -- Triumph of market-Leninism over Marxist-Leninism -- Stabilisation or adjustment? -- A taxonomy of countries in the region -- Conclusion -- 4 The persistence of poverty -- Poverty in context -- Poverty measurement -- Poverty trends -- Food and hunger -- Healthcare -- Education -- The debt issue -- Conclusions -- 5 Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management -- 'Wild' plant and animal resources: biophysical determinants of availability -- Common uses of 'natural resources' and relevance for livelihoods -- Tenure and access rights -- Indigenous knowledge, resources and trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs) -- Conservation of natural resources: from criminals to community -- Some thoughts for the future -- 6 Agricultural production in eastern and southern Africa: issues and challenges -- The current status of agricultural production -- Macro-environmental operating conditions for agriculture -- Population growth -- The political economy environment -- Micro-environmental operating conditions for agriculture.

Future prospects -- 7 Water resources and development challenges in eastern and southern Africa -- Physical setting -- Estimation of renewable water resources -- Use of water resources -- Supply and demand - the water stress index -- Quality of water resources -- Hydropolitics of transboundary watercourses -- Alleviating water scarcity - interbasin water transfers and 'virtual water' -- Concluding discussion - future challenges -- 8 Desertification in eastern and southern Africa -- Introduction -- Developments in the understanding of desertification -- Desertification today -- Contemporary implications of desertification for development in eastern and southern Africa -- Causes of desertification -- Conclusion -- 9 Geographies of governance and regional politics -- Introduction: geographical analysis and African politics -- Key themes and issues in national, regional and international (geo)politics -- States and regional (dis)integration: imagining 'development' communities -- Democratisation and conflict resolution in global political and economic context -- Conclusions: Co-operation, corruption and complexity in African politics -- 10 International and regional trade in eastern and southern Africa -- Peripherality in the world economy -- The European connection -- (Regional) economic partnership agreements -- Conclusion -- 11 Regional urbanisation and urban livelihoods in the context of globalisation -- Introduction -- Urban growth in eastern and southern Africa -- Urban livelihoods in eastern and southern Africa -- Urban services: the example of housing -- Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion -- Index.

A unique and comprehensive introduction to contemporary development issues in East and Southern Africa, and represents a significant departure from the often descriptive approach adopted by existing regional and development texts on African regions. Each contribution is carefully chosen to highlight the theoretical basis to development issues, and the practical problems of implementing development plans, in this vital subregion. Overall this produces comprehensive and balanced coverage of historical, economic, political and social issues. The twin issues of globalisation and modernisation give the book a clear focus.

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