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Environmental movements in sub-Saharan Africa : a political ecology of power and conflict

This paper critically examines environmental movements in sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on two prominent cases: the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People of Nigeria's Niger Delta and the Green Belt Movement of Kenya. Its thesis is that environmental movements in Africa operate within a transformative logic in which struggles for power over environmental resources connect broader popular social struggles for empowerment and democracy

Print Book, English, Jan. 2005
UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Jan. 2005