TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maro,Pendo
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Environmental Change in Lesotho: An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Land-Use Change in the Lowland Region 
SN  - 9789400718814
AV  - GE300-350 
U1  - 333.7 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Geography
KW  - Landscape ecology
KW  - Environmental law
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Environment
KW  - Environmental Management
KW  - Geography (general)
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Landscape Ecology
KW  - Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
N1  - Introduction -- The Wealth of Knowledge: Drivers and Consequences of Land-Use Change -- Lesotho: Macro to Micro Perspectives of Land-Use Change -- Village Perceptions of Land-Use Change.-Village Patterns of Land-Use Change -- Discussing Causes and Consequences of Land-Use Change in the Lowland Region -- Conclusions: So What? -- Index
N2  - The aim of this book is to identify and analyze the drivers of land-use change and the consequences of these changes on the livelihoods of rural land-users/managers. To accomplish this, a combination of tools from the social sciences and environmental fields were developed to identify causes and consequences of land-use change at selected levels, using a ‘nested’ approach. These methods were then applied to a case study of villages in Maseru and Mohale’s Hoek districts in the Lowland region of Lesotho. Based on the research findings, key proximate drivers of land-use change in the Lowland villages were established. These were drought, lack of water, land mismanagement, HIV/AIDS and ‘dependency syndrome’. These were acted on by underlying and other drivers to bring about major changes in land-use. The book offers an understanding of the actions of local land-users and managers, and their responses to biophysical, social-political, environmental, HIV/AIDS and other stresses, giving an insight into a household’s decision-making behaviour, degree of vulnerability and hence their resilience and adaptive capabilities and mechanisms. This book is directed at the wide scientific and non-scientific audience including environmental and social science experts, researchers, decision-makers, and development/aid workers interested in understanding the intricate human-environment relationship as it relates to land-use change in a changing biophysical, socio-economic, political and institutional context, coupled by HIV/AIDS, changing demographics, local perceptions and what is termed here ‘dependency syndrome’
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