TY - BOOK AU - Mawere,Munyaradzi ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Environment and natural resource conservation and management in Mozambique SN - 9789956790210 AV - QH77.M85 M384 2013 U1 - 333.72096 22 PY - 2013/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Mozambique KW - Nature conservation KW - Government policy KW - Environmental conditions KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Preface -- Guide to the reader -- Situating Mozambique's natural resource management in historical context -- Environmental malpractices in Mozambique : a case study of Xai-Xai Rural Area, Gaza Province, Mozambique -- Green Revolution Program (GRP) in Mozambique : rethinking the impact of Mozambique's fast-track GRP on the environment and biodiversity -- Gold panning in central Mozambique : a critical investigation of the effects of gold panning in Manica Province -- Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Mozambique : lessons and directions for natural resource management -- "It's neither conservation nor preservation" : possibilities for alleviating poverty through Dambo utilization in Chokwe Rural Area, Gaza Province, Mozambique -- Small-scale cash income sources in central Mozambique : the root cause of resource scarcity and environmental instability? -- Conclusion -- Unlocking the crisis : new directions for conservation in Mozambique N2 - This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosystem destruction, land degradation and natural resource over-exploitation in Africa and beyond. Never losing sight of the major causes of environment and resource mismanagement in Mozambique, the book advances the thesis UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789956790210/ ER -