Alan Dixon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3697371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Dixon |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Dixon |
| FIRMA | DIXON A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Worcester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9898-0806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Africa
African Economies
Africa's People
Africa is populated by a rich and culturally diverse population which is experiencing significant processes of demographic and social change. Research focusing on Africa’s people has, in the past discussed the colonization and exploitation of the continent and its people, and some attention has been focused on the African diaspora, particularly in North America, but also on the eastern shores of Latin America, where slaves were taken to plantatio…
Rural Africa
This chapter begins by addressing the issue of land tenure arrangements, which plays a fundamental role in determining the nature of rural livelihoods, such as agriculture, pastoralism, fishing and forestry. It reviews the key characteristics and challenges inherent in a range of common livelihood strategies, but it is important to emphasize the spatial and temporal dynamism of rural life. However, the chapter sector tends to make up agriculture’…
Developing Africa
African Environments
History and Governance
Conflict and Post-Conflict
Conclusion
Having presented an extensive overview of the broad themes which characterize Africa’s development and its place in the world, in the chapter attempts to synthesize what they have learned and consider some possible future trends and scenarios. There has been much debate about why similar countries with broadly comparable resource and environmental endowments have achieved very different development outcomes. While Africa has experienced some of t…
Urban Africa
Introduction
In the early 21st century, Africa is widely perceived as being the world’s poorest continent, with a seemingly endless agenda of development priorities. Africa’s rapid population growth rates, the world’s highest and averaging 2.45 per cent annually, will lead to an estimated total population of 1,688 billion in 2030, a fifth of the world’s population, and larger than either China or India. In terms of the quality of life in Africa as reflected i…
Health and Development
Indigenous Management of Wetlands
This title was first published in 2003. There has been increasing recognition around the world that wetlands are fragile ecosystems which require sensitive and sustainable management if they are to continue to provide their range of functions and benefits. These functions and benefits, which include contributions to food security and environmental regulation, play a critical role in sustaining rural livelihoods in many developing countries. Drawi…
Creating local institutional arrangements for sustainable wetland socio-ecological systems
Wetland socio-ecological systems provide livelihood benefits for many poor people throughout the developing world, yet their sustainable development requires local utilisation strategies that balance both environmental and development outcomes. Community-based local institutional arrangements that mediate peoples’ relationships with their environment and facilitate adaptive co-management offer one means of achieving this, and increasingly many NG…
Africa
For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest it has long deserved, in the shape of debates about trade, aid and debt, the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign, and the UK's ‘Commission on Africa’. But,…
The resilience and sustainability of local wetland management institutions in Illubabor and Western Wellega, Ethiopia
Local community based institutions that coordinate the management of natural resources have been linked to socioecological resilience, adaptation and sustainability within rural livelihood systems throughout the developing world. The resilience and sustainability of related local institutions, however, is influenced by their relationship with external actors and institutions, particularly in facilitating, supporting or hindering local institution…
South Africa's working for water programme
Poverty reduction and environmental conservation have rarely been integrated within development programmes. In South Africa, however, the government's Working for Water Programme (WfW) has sought to empower the most marginalized in society through the creation of jobs and training opportunities in the clearance of invasive alien plants that threaten water resources and biodiversity. Although the environmental benefits of the programme have been d…
Wetland sustainability and the evolution of indigenous knowledge in Ethiopia
Much research in recent years has addressed the contribution of indigenous knowledge (IK) to development initiatives in developing countries. An IK system that continuously evolves and adapts in response to environmental and socio-economic change is often considered to be at the core of sustainable natural resource management practices and rural livelihoods. In the context of indigenous wetland management in western Ethiopia, this paper examines …
Indigenous Management of Wetlands
Buy Indigenous Management of Wetlands: Experiences in Ethiopia (King's SOAS Studies in Development Geography) First Edition by Dixon, Alan (ISBN: 9780754630449) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders
Practical Note
The adoption of participatory approaches has become virtually de rigueur in rural development projects, if only to satisfy donor demands for evidence of participation. Often, however, PRA and its derivatives are used in an extractive fashion and do not benefit local people as intended. This Practical Note reports on a project in Ethiopia in which PRA was used. An evaluation conducted with the same communities after the research phase was conclude…
Wetland sustainability and the evolution of indigenous knowledge in Ethiopia
Much research in recent years has addressed the contribution of indigenous knowledge (IK) to development initiatives in developing countries. An IK system that continuously evolves and adapts in response to environmental and socio-economic change is often considered to be at the core of sustainable natural resource management practices and rural livelihoods. In the context of indigenous wetland management in western Ethiopia, this paper examines …
South Africa's working for water programme
Poverty reduction and environmental conservation have rarely been integrated within development programmes. In South Africa, however, the government's Working for Water Programme (WfW) has sought to empower the most marginalized in society through the creation of jobs and training opportunities in the clearance of invasive alien plants that threaten water resources and biodiversity. Although the environmental benefits of the programme have been d…
Practical Note
The adoption of participatory approaches has become virtually de rigueur in rural development projects, if only to satisfy donor demands for evidence of participation. Often, however, PRA and its derivatives are used in an extractive fashion and do not benefit local people as intended. This Practical Note reports on a project in Ethiopia in which PRA was used. An evaluation conducted with the same communities after the research phase was conclude…
Indigenous Management of Wetlands
Buy Indigenous Management of Wetlands: Experiences in Ethiopia (King's SOAS Studies in Development Geography) First Edition by Dixon, Alan (ISBN: 9780754630449) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders
Practical Note
The adoption of participatory approaches has become virtually de rigueur in rural development projects, if only to satisfy donor demands for evidence of participation. Often, however, PRA and its derivatives are used in an extractive fashion and do not benefit local people as intended. This Practical Note reports on a project in Ethiopia in which PRA was used. An evaluation conducted with the same communities after the research phase was conclude…
Wetland sustainability and the evolution of indigenous knowledge in Ethiopia
Much research in recent years has addressed the contribution of indigenous knowledge (IK) to development initiatives in developing countries. An IK system that continuously evolves and adapts in response to environmental and socio-economic change is often considered to be at the core of sustainable natural resource management practices and rural livelihoods. In the context of indigenous wetland management in western Ethiopia, this paper examines …
The resilience and sustainability of local wetland management institutions in Illubabor and Western Wellega, Ethiopia
Local community based institutions that coordinate the management of natural resources have been linked to socioecological resilience, adaptation and sustainability within rural livelihood systems throughout the developing world. The resilience and sustainability of related local institutions, however, is influenced by their relationship with external actors and institutions, particularly in facilitating, supporting or hindering local institution…
South Africa's working for water programme
Poverty reduction and environmental conservation have rarely been integrated within development programmes. In South Africa, however, the government's Working for Water Programme (WfW) has sought to empower the most marginalized in society through the creation of jobs and training opportunities in the clearance of invasive alien plants that threaten water resources and biodiversity. Although the environmental benefits of the programme have been d…
Africa
For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest it has long deserved, in the shape of debates about trade, aid and debt, the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign, and the UK's ‘Commission on Africa’. But,…
Creating local institutional arrangements for sustainable wetland socio-ecological systems
Wetland socio-ecological systems provide livelihood benefits for many poor people throughout the developing world, yet their sustainable development requires local utilisation strategies that balance both environmental and development outcomes. Community-based local institutional arrangements that mediate peoples’ relationships with their environment and facilitate adaptive co-management offer one means of achieving this, and increasingly many NG…
Indigenous Management of Wetlands
This title was first published in 2003. There has been increasing recognition around the world that wetlands are fragile ecosystems which require sensitive and sustainable management if they are to continue to provide their range of functions and benefits. These functions and benefits, which include contributions to food security and environmental regulation, play a critical role in sustaining rural livelihoods in many developing countries. Drawi…
Africa
African Economies
Africa's People
Africa is populated by a rich and culturally diverse population which is experiencing significant processes of demographic and social change. Research focusing on Africa’s people has, in the past discussed the colonization and exploitation of the continent and its people, and some attention has been focused on the African diaspora, particularly in North America, but also on the eastern shores of Latin America, where slaves were taken to plantatio…
Rural Africa
This chapter begins by addressing the issue of land tenure arrangements, which plays a fundamental role in determining the nature of rural livelihoods, such as agriculture, pastoralism, fishing and forestry. It reviews the key characteristics and challenges inherent in a range of common livelihood strategies, but it is important to emphasize the spatial and temporal dynamism of rural life. However, the chapter sector tends to make up agriculture’…
Developing Africa
African Environments
History and Governance
Conflict and Post-Conflict
Conclusion
Having presented an extensive overview of the broad themes which characterize Africa’s development and its place in the world, in the chapter attempts to synthesize what they have learned and consider some possible future trends and scenarios. There has been much debate about why similar countries with broadly comparable resource and environmental endowments have achieved very different development outcomes. While Africa has experienced some of t…
Urban Africa
Introduction
In the early 21st century, Africa is widely perceived as being the world’s poorest continent, with a seemingly endless agenda of development priorities. Africa’s rapid population growth rates, the world’s highest and averaging 2.45 per cent annually, will lead to an estimated total population of 1,688 billion in 2030, a fifth of the world’s population, and larger than either China or India. In terms of the quality of life in Africa as reflected i…
Health and Development
Political science (11 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Environmental planning (5 obras) · Environmental resource management (5 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 obras) · Sustainability (5 obras) · Africa (4 obras)