Donald L Sparks

Biographic Data

ID3612392
NAMEDonald L Sparks
GIVEN NAMESDonald L
FAMILY NAMESparks
SIGNATURESPARKS D L
AFFILIATIONSCitadel
ORCID0000-0001-8253-3473
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS27
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • The Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Donald L SparksEDITORBOOKBlue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa2021

  • Blue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Donald L SparksBOOKBlue Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa2021

  • Soil and human security in the 21st century

    Open AccessRonald Amundson, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    Global soil resources under stress The future of humanity is intertwined with the future of Earth's soil resources. Soil provides for agriculture, improves water quality, and buffers greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Yet human activities, including agricultural soil erosion, are rapidly degrading soil faster than it is naturally replenished. At this rate, human security over the next century will be severely threatened by unsustainable soil man…

  • Business and the State in Southern Africa, by Scott D. Taylor

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrican Affairs2008

    Scott Taylor has produced a well-researched and well-reasoned examination of the disconnect between business and government in Southern Africa. It is a balanced account of a complicated and often emotionally charged subject. Since the late 1980s most states in the region, encouraged by the international financial institutions and the ‘Washington Consensus’, have moved from an anti-business stance to one where the state professes a desire to provi…

  • A Culture of Corruption

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrica Today2008

    Reviewed by: A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria Donald L. Sparks Smith, Daniel Jordan . 2007. A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 263 pp. $27.99 (cloth). Daniel Smith offers an easy-to-read, engaging, and personal account of corruption in today's Nigeria. While corruption obviously is not limited to Nigeria (witness the Wol…

  • Political Topographies of the African State

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrica Today2005

    Reviewed by: Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice Donald L Sparks Boone, Catherine . 2003. Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice. New York: Cambridge University Press. xii+405 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). This is almost a brilliant book. This is not to be taken as a criticism, as Catherine Boone has made a genuine contribution to be…

  • The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa

    Donald L Sparks, Amila Toulmin et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2003Cited by: 11

    Introduction I UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF LAND TENURE Land tenure, resource access & decentralisation in Ghana - Customary land tenure regimes in north-western Cameroon - Shifting tradition: forest resource tenure in Ghana - Forest tenure & access to forest resources in Cameroon - Land rights, land use dynamics & policy in periurban Tamale, Ghana - Behind the norms: women's access to land in Ghana - Land availability & the land tenure regime i…

  • The State against the Peasantry

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrica Today2001

  • Contending Issues in African Development

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrica Today2001

    Iheduru, Obioma M., ed. 2001. Contending Issues in African Development: Advances, Challenges, and the Future. Westport: Greenwood Press. 342 pp

  • Development Issues in South Africa

    Donald Sparks, Donald L Sparks et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2001

    Foreword Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview: I.Elbadawi & T.Hartzenberg Understanding South Africa's Inequality H.Bhorat, M.Leibbrandt & I.Woolard Fiscal Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa N.Kusi & L.Fusile Public Policy and Private Investment in South Africa: An Empirical Investigation K.Mlambo & K.Nell Industrial and Energy Policy: A Partial Review B.Fine Land Reform as a Strategy for Development: The Relevance of th…

  • The Colonial Legacy in Somalia, Rome and Mogadishu

    Donald L Sparks, Paolo TripodiARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1999Cited by: 10

    Foreword Preface Introduction Historical Perspective on Italian Colonialism Italy and the Administration of Somalia: a Difficult Mandate AFIS: Two Difficult Tasks - Democratisation and Somalisation Co-operation and Diplomacy Mogadishu versus the World Conclusions Bibliography Index

  • Methods of Soil Analysis

    Open AccessDonald L Sparks, A L Page et al.EDITORBOOKMethods of soil analysis.1996

  • Adjustment in Africa

    Donald L Sparks, World BankARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1995Cited by: 1

  • Books in review

    Open AccessWinston H Griffith, Abbas Pourgerami et al.ARTICLEStudies in Comparative…1993References: 1

  • Namibia

    Robert I Rotberg, Donald L Sparks et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1993Cited by: 3

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth

    Donald L Sparks, Frederic L PryorARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1992

  • Namibia's Coastal and Marine Development Potential

    Donald L SparksARTICLEAfrican Affairs1984Cited by: 2

    Journal Article NAMIBIA'S COASTAL AND MARINE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL Get access DONALD L. SPARKS DONALD L. SPARKS The author is presently senior economist and special assistant for international affairs at the South Carolina Sea Start Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 333, October 1984, Pages 477–496, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordj…

  • Tanzania's Ujamaa Villages

    Donald L Sparks, Dean E MchenryARTICLEAfrican Economic History1980