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Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities

Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria

By: Roy Maconachie

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Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities

Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria

By: Roy Maconachie

The peri-urban interface in poor countries is frequently an area of great dynamism and a focus of competition for basic resources. In Nigeria, peri-urban livelihood strategies have become an increasingly important survival mechanism in the context of rapid urban growth. This book uses an innovative combination of methodologies from both the natural and social sciences to examine recent developments in and around the city of Kano in northern Nigeria, and in doing so, provides insights into the sustainability of these livelihood strategies. Identifying some of the most significant forces that are currently shaping the process of peri-urban change, it argues that, despite the adoption of creative and ingenious strategies by many farmers, urban growth is having a considerable effect on the livelihood resilience of individuals, households and communities. The findings presented in this book have much wider relevance and are transferable to other burgeoning Third World cities where increased pressures on urban hinterlands have intensified contests amongst various actors, made access to resources much more difficult and made traditional smallholder mechanisms of adaptation and resilience increasingly challenging.

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Routledge

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1317003780

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9781317003786

Gold

By: Michael John Bloomfield,Roy Maconachie

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Gold

By: Michael John Bloomfield,Roy Maconachie

Gold remains a highly prized and impactful resource within the global economy. From the insatiable demand for gold in the electronics that permeate our day-to-day lives to the environmental desolation driven by gold mining in the Amazon, the gold trade continues to touch the lives and livelihoods of people across the world. Bloomfield and Maconachie tell the intriguing story of the yellow metal, tracing the seismic shifts in the industry over the past few decades. They show how huge purchases of gold reserves by BRICS countries mark the shifting balance of power away from the West, and how rising affluence in India and China has led to a surging demand for gold jewellery, calling into question current approaches to make supply chains more responsible. Explaining why gold is so difficult to regulate and why it is only becoming more so, the authors suggest ways we could, collectively, make practices work better for the countless workers and communities who suffer at the producer end of the supply chain. Linking local to global, producer to consumer, and gold’s extraction from the Earth to the financial centres that fuel it, this book offers a probing analysis that reveals who wins and who loses and what this means for the future of gold.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509534121

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9781509534128

Gold

By: Michael John Bloomfield,Roy Maconachie

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By: Michael John Bloomfield,Roy Maconachie

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Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities

Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria

By: Roy Maconachie

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Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria

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1317003799

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9781317003793

Natural Resource Extraction and Development

By: Roy Machonachie,Gavin M. Hilson

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Natural Resource Extraction and Development

By: Roy Machonachie,Gavin M. Hilson

Since colonial times, the developing world has served as a ¿resource hinterland¿ for the global capitalist system. In recent years, this relationship has again returned to centre stage. Across the globe, a broad range of natural resources are being drawn into market-led modes of environmental governance. Pressures on natural resources in the developing world have become especially acute as escalating mineral and energy demands from the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and the continuing US quest for non-Islamic oil and strategic minerals have made Third World resources increasingly significant in global markets. Such a geopolitical shift in global resource interests would suggest that there is an urgent need to reconsider the impacts of ¿neo-colonial¿ transnational practices in the context of natural resource-extraction industries. As local issues become linked to global political and economic forces, a ¿second scramble¿ for natural resources in Africa, Asia and Latin America, initiated by powerful transnational corporations (TNCs) and other actors, threatens to undermine country policies for sustainable resource extraction, and sustainable development more broadly. This timely text will introduce readers to the key issues surrounding reform and expansion of the extractive industries in developing countries, highlighting the consequences of recent developments in the sector to development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Material will draw on a variety of case studies from across the developing world, focusing on both large-scale and small-scale resource extraction. In addition to providing a comprehensive critique of neo-liberal agendas, and more specifically, the role of the World Bank and multinational mining corporations in developing countries, the book will engage with a number of debates that have recently transpired around such key issues as the role of mineral resources in perpetuating civil violence, the ¿scramble¿ for Third World oil, the need for ¿good governance¿ and corporate social responsibility, and the rise of artisanal mining as an alternative livelihood. In an era where neo-liberal principles have become the dominant ideology propelling the extension of markets and the use and regulation of natural resources in the developing world, this text fills the pressing need for a synthesis that can draw together a range of complex, but inter-related issues. By exploring contemporary theoretical debates, examining current policies, and drawing on the author¿s extensive field-based research, this book will shed new light on environment-development questions raised within the extractive industries.

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0415545706

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Lawrence Pollard

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King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Lawrence Pollard

Rogers' story in his own words, lavishly illustrated with photographs from his private collection.

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Collins Pub San Francisco

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0002554496

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Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities

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