Bøker av Stephen Dovers

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. This book seeks to overcome the mismatch and to guide development of a policy and institutional framework. It provides the insights of public policy and disaster management.

This textbook explores the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability. The chapters explore such issues as scientific legitimacy, public participation, non-governmental organizations and inter-sectoral communication across a wide range of ecosystem management contexts.

Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie at the heart of all environmental history, the field opens the door to a wide range of inquiries, several of which are pioneered in this collection.South