HistoryEnvironmental SciencePolitical Science
DOI: 10.2307/220814

tlooto Summary

Challenging received wisdom on African environmental issues, exploring colonial economic relations and donor actions in Mozambique.

Abstract

Part One Present position: return to 1973 and colonial economic relations lost in Bretton Woods the power of the global superstate there are alternatives. Part Two Intractable contradictions: stabilization versus rebuilding donor rhetoric versus donor actions greed versus need. Part Three What way forward?: donors could practise what they preach, but they won't who benefits? can Mozambique be allowed its own vision?

Citation format

LEACH, M.; MEARNS, R. The lie of the land: Challenging received wisdom on the African environment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 1999, 32: 135.