Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990

This text confronts the alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining two centuries of historical evidence of environmental change. It presents African landscapes as created by humans, not as some idealized notion of Eden. Key topics covered include: the effects of population growth; disease; agricultural change; the state of natural resources; and the role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes. It has all been written in a manner that the undergraduate and the non-specialist can readily grasp.McCann, James C. is the author of 'Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990', published 1999 under ISBN 9780852557747 and ISBN 0852557744.