Our systems are now restored following recent technical disruption, and we’re working hard to catch up on publishing. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Find out more

Recommended product

Popular links

Popular links


Population and Development Projects in Africa

Population and Development Projects in Africa

Population and Development Projects in Africa

John I. Clarke
January 2010
Paperback
9780521125611
AUD$65.41
exc GST
Paperback

    The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa.

    Product details

    January 2010
    Paperback
    9780521125611
    348 pages
    244 × 170 × 18 mm
    0.56kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of contributors
    • Preface
    • 1. The demographic background to development in Africa Aderanti Adepoju and John I. Clarke
    • 2. Development projects and their demographic impact Leszek A. KosiÅ„ski
    • 3. Conceptualisation of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution Abdul Aziz M. Farah, Lufti A. Desougi and Anne M. Lewandowski
    • 4. Capitalism and the population landscape Galal el-Din el-Tayeb
    • 5. Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment El Watig Mohamed Kameir and Zeinab B. El Bakri
    • 6. Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency? John R. Rogge
    • 7. Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80 Adrian P. Wood
    • 8. Populating Uganda's dry lands John B. Kabera
    • 9. Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagisation programme Michael McCall
    • 10. Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania Ian Thomas
    • 11. Communal villages and the distribution on the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique Manuel G. M. De Araújo
    • 12. A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi Adrian P. Wood
    • 13. Resettlement and under-development in the Black 'Homelands' of South Africa C. M. Rogerson and E. M. Letsoalo
    • 14. Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria Aderanti Adpoju
    • 15. Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana George Benneh
    • 16. Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan Abdul Aziz M. Farah
    • 17. A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin
    • 18. Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed and Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin
    • 19. The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution Babiker Abdalla Abdel Rahman and Amna Beshir Homoudi
    • 20. Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme Mohammed Osman El Sammani
    • 21. The Gash Delta: labour organisation in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production Hassan Mohomed Salih
    • 22. The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan Mahgoub O. Gaafar and K. V. Ramachandran
    • 23. The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan L. R. Mills
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Aderanti Adepoju, John I. Clarke, Leszek A. KosiÅ„ski, Abdul Aziz M. Farah, Lufti A. Desougi, Anne M. Lewandowski, Galal el-Din el-Tayeb, El Watig Mohamed Kameir, Zeinab B. El Bakri, John R. Rogge, Adrian P. Wood, John B. Kabera, Michael McCall, Ian Thomas, Manuel G. M. De Araújo, C. M. Rogerson, E. M. Letsoalo, George Benneh, Mohamed el-Hadi Abusin, Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed, Babiker Abdalla Abdel Rahman, Amna Beshir Homoudi, Mohammed Osman El Sammani, Hassan Mohamed Salih, Mahgoub O. Gaafar, K. V. Ramachandran, L. R. Mills

    • Author
    • John I. Clarke