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Imperial Gullies

Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho

Szerző: Kate Barger Showers

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Ohio University Press

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Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland....

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Kate Barger Showers

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

376

EAN

9780821416136

ISBN

0821416138

Enbook ID

04935444

Kiadó

Ohio University Press

Súly

630

Méretek

153 x 229 x 31

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Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were caused by colonial and postcolonial practices. The residents of Lesotho emerge as victims of a failed technology. Their efforts to mitigate or resist implementation of destructive soil conservation engineering works were thwarted, and they were blamed for the consequences of policies promoted by international soil conservationists since the 1930s. Imperial Gullies calls for an observational, experimental and, most importantly, a fully consultative and participatory approach to address Lesotho's serious contemporary problems of soil erosion. The first book to bring to center stage the historical practice of colonial soil science and a cautionary tale of western science in unfamiliar terrain it will interest a broad, interdisciplinary audience in African and environmental studies, social sciences, and history. Kate B. Showers is a visiting research fellow and senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, England. She has lived in rural Lesotho and has served as head of research, Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho.

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