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Author Prothero, R. Mansell, compiler.

Title People and land in Africa south of the Sahara : readings in social geography / edited by R. Mansell Prothero.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  333.00967 P946p 1972    ---  Lib Use Only
Description iv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.
Contents Introduction: Relationships Between People and Land -- Population-Land Relationships: The Physical Environment -- Change of Regional Balance in the Bukoba District of Tanganyika / D.N. McMaster -- Savanna and Forest in Western Nigeria / W.B. Morgan & R.P. Moss -- Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation / P.W. Porter -- Some Observations on Desiccation in North-Western Nigeria / R.M. Prothero -- Livestock Trypanosomiasis and Human Settlement in Northeastern Uganda / W. Deshler -- Population-Land Relationships: Adjustment -- Land and Population Pressure in the Kano Close-Settled Zone, Northern Nigeria / M.J. Mortimore -- Farming Practice, Settlement Pattern and Population Density in South-Eastern Nigeria / W.B. Morgan -- Cocoa Migration and Patterns of Land Ownership in the Densu Valley near Suhum, Ghana / J.M. Hunter -- A Study of Tribal Re-adjustment in the Nile Valley: The Experience of the Ingessana / H.R.J. Davies -- Irrigation in the Sudan: Its Growth, Distribution and Potential Extension / K.M. Barbour -- Population-Land Relationships: Maladjustment -- Land Use Patterns and Agricultural Migration in Central Ghana (Western Gonja) / W. Manshard -- Population Pressure in a Part of the West African Savanna: A Study of Nangodi, Northeast Ghana / J.M. Hunter -- Land and Population in West Nile District, Uganda / J.F.M. Middleton & D.J. Greenland -- Types of Food Shortages in Tanzania / C. Brooke -- Population-Land Relationships: European Infiuences -- The Influence of European Contacts on the Landscape of Southern Nigeria / W.B. Morgan -- The "White Highlands" of Kenya / W.T.W. Morgan -- Land Apportionment in Southern Rhodesia / B.N. Floyd -- Overpopulation and Overstocking in the Native Areas of Matabeleland / J.R.V. Prescott -- Population Patterns and Policies in South Africa, 1951-1960 / T.J.D. Fair & N.M. Shaffer -- Population-Land Relationships: Readjustment -- The Decolonization of the White Highlands of Kenya / N.S. Carey Jones -- Resettlement and Land Use Planning in Zambia: The Chipangali Scheme / G. Kay -- Population-Land Relationships: Evaluation -- Ascertaining Population Carrying Capacity under Traditional Systems of Agriculture in Developing Countries / J.M. Hunter -- How Much Land Does a Man Require? / W. Allan -- Man Against His Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework / P.R. Gould -- Toward a Model of Population-Land Relationships -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Land use -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Population.
Land use. (OCoLC)fst00991472
Population. (OCoLC)fst01071476
Sub-Saharan Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239520
ISBN 0195012879
9780195012873

 
    
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