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Performing Sustainability in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Performing Sustainability in West Africa

This book discusses the role of cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including performance, video, theatre, community arts and cultural heritage. Based on ethnographic field research in local communities, the book presents findings on current debates of cultural sustainability in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Benin. It provides a unique perspective connecting cultural studies, conflict studies and practical peacebuilding approaches through the arts. The first part pays particular attention to aspects of social cohesion and the circumstances of internally displaced persons e. g. caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in No...

The Precolonial State in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

The Precolonial State in West Africa

This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.

Alleviating Soil Fertility Constraints to Increased Crop Production in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Alleviating Soil Fertility Constraints to Increased Crop Production in West Africa

Tropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age. The legacy is that most of the parent materials of the soils of tropical Africa are old, highly weathered and devoid of bases and phosphate-bearing minerals. Traditional farming systems which were relatively stable and sustainable relied on long fallow periods after one to two years of cropping to maintain the productive capacity of the soils. In recent times and especially in densely populated areas, a sizeable class of 'landless' farmers have begun to cultivate marginal lands or to invade the 'forest reserves' thereby exacerbating the problems of land and environ mental degradation. ...

Energy Efficiency and Conservation in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Energy Efficiency and Conservation in West Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Guide to Sustainable Energy in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

A Guide to Sustainable Energy in West Africa

This volume highlights the abundancy of clean energy resources with which the geographical area of West Africa is endowed. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and how it contributes to the mitigation of global warming. The book identifies in detail the stock of various resources, the enabling business environment and the state of the development of solar and hydro power technologies.

Anthropology And Rural Development In West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Anthropology And Rural Development In West Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past ten years. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and in other parts of the Third World. The book is not a manual that seeks to present solutions; rather it describes some of the kinds of development situations in which anthropologists participated and examines the kind of tensions under which they operated.

Reunification in West German Party Politics From Westbindung to Ostpolitik
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Reunification in West German Party Politics From Westbindung to Ostpolitik

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

Combining new thinking in International Relations theory with original historical research, Kleuters explores the struggle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats on the subject of German reunification, from Westbindung to Ostpolitik. The result is a gripping narrative focussing on theoretical relevance in foreign policy decisions-making.

Delayed Redevelopment was Reasonable After Flood Disaster in West Virginia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56
The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties in West European Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties in West European Democracies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book contends that far-right parties play pivotal roles in setting the tone of political debates, shaping the political party system, and structuring government policy. Increasingly, as national governments attempt to cope with new realities of greater global migration, strained welfare states, and threats of foreign terror, opportunities have opened for parties of the far right to position themselves strategically.

Spirituality and Tertiary Education in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Spirituality and Tertiary Education in West Africa

This study is on aspects of formal tertiary education and students’ learning, especially a critical examination of factors that affect the attitudes and moral behaviours of university students towards learning and the possibility of spirituality as a source of sustainable motivation for students’ learning in Njala University, Sierra Leone.