TY - GEN digital ID - 131678231 TI - The politics of deforestation in Africa : Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda PY - 2018 SN - 9783319768281 PB - Cham Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Economic order KW - Economic policy and planning (general) KW - Economic conditions. Economic development KW - Development aid. Development cooperation KW - Economics KW - Afrikaans KW - ontwikkelingsbeleid KW - sociologie KW - economie KW - economische politiek KW - politiek KW - ontwikkelingssamenwerking KW - economische ontwikkelingen KW - sociale bewegingen KW - streekontwikkeling KW - duurzame ontwikkeling KW - ontwikkelingspolitiek KW - Uganda KW - Tanzania KW - Madagascar KW - Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131678231 AB - This book explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa. Specifically, this project explains the gap between intent and impact of forest policies, focusing on three African societies facing persistent deforestation today: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda. The central claim of the study is that deforestation persists because conservation policies and projects, which are largely underwritten by foreign donors, consistently ignore the fact that conservation is possible only under limited and specific conditions. To make the case, the author examines how decision-making power is negotiated and exercised where communities make environmental decisions daily (local level) and where environmental policies are negotiated and enacted (national level) across three distinct African political systems. Nadia Rabesahala Horning is Associate Professor, Director of African Studies, and Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College, USA. ER -