Product Description: Based on a blend of knowledge and perspectives from a variety of disciplines this volume examines the human-environment interaction in Africa, with a focus on the economic, social and political processes that generate environmental change and problems in this region...read more

Product Description: Based on extensive field work and documentation, the book provides a timely, comprehensive and scholarly examination of Tanzania's experience with growth centre planning. It discusses the salient features of Tanzania's growth centre and industrial decentralisation strategy and critically examines the post-independence industrial and urban development policies of the erstwhile Nyerere administration, identifying the primary factors accounting for their failure and poor implementation...read more