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Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990
Green Land Brown Land Black Land An Environmental History of Africa 18001990 Author:James C. McCann This text confronts the alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining two centuries of historical evidence of environmental change. It presents African landscapes as created by humans, not as some idealized notion of Eden. Key topics covered include: the effects of population growth; disease; agricultural change; t... more »he state of natural resources; and the role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes. North America: Heinemann« less