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The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting, pollution and habitat change have been well studied, but the socioeconomic factors driving people to degrade their environment are less well understood. This book examines the underlying causes. It provides analyses of a range of case studies from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Danube River Basin, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania and Vietnam, and integrates them into a new and interdisciplinary framework for understanding what is happening. From these results, the editors are able to derive policy conclusions and recommendations for operational and institutional approaches to address the root causes and reverse the current trends. It makes a contribution to the understanding of all those - from ecologists and conservationists to economists and policy makers - working on one of the major challenges we face.

Ressource naturelle --- Natural resources --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversity --- Dégradation de l'environnement --- Environmental degradation --- Épuisement des ressources --- Resource depletion --- Environnement socioéconomique --- socioeconomic environment --- Impact sur l'environnement --- Environmental impact --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- Biodiversity. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Environmental degradation. --- Cameroon --- China --- Danube River --- India --- Mexico --- Pakistan --- Philippines --- République-Unie de Tanzanie --- United Republic of Tanzania --- Viet Nam --- Nature --- Effect of human beings on. --- CON Bioconservation --- Brazil = Brasil --- Cameroun = Cameroon --- Danube Basin --- Tanzania = Tanzanie ( = Tanganyika = German East Africa = British East Africa (after 1918) ) --- Vietnam --- bioconservation --- biodiversity --- Extinction (Biology). --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Animals --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Biology --- Extinct animals --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Effect of human beings on --- Extinction --- Extirpation

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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

Blood --- Folklore --- Vampires --- Folklore. --- Sang --- Africa, East --- Africa, Central --- Afrique orientale anglophone --- Afrique centrale --- Colonial influence. --- Influence coloniale --- Blood (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Africa, British East --- Animals, Mythical --- Superstition --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- British East Africa --- East Africa --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Lesbian vampires --- Dead --- Monsters --- Vampire --- Vampirisme --- Folklore - Africa --- Blood - Folklore. --- Colonisation --- Culture conflict. --- Afrique de l'Est --- Africa, Central - - Colonial influence --- blood sucked. --- captured residents and took blood. --- colonial tanganyika. --- gossip and rumor. --- historical reconstruction. --- historical truth and memory. --- kampala. --- kenya. --- kept in pit. --- police abducted africans. --- powerful. --- stories to describe colonial power. --- uganda. --- vampire stories from east and central africa. --- vivid. --- white colonists. --- zambia.