@article{1441703,
      author = {Marchant, Rob,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441703},
      title = {East Africa's human environment interactions : historical  perspectives for sustainable future environment  interactions /},
      abstract = {East Africa is characterised by extreme social and  environmental contrasts that has undergone transformative  changes over the past 300,000 years - the era of modern  humans. People have left increasingly deep and pervasive  footprints across the region, resulting in the  anthropogenically crafted landscape of the present. The  book shows how understanding contemporary issues, such as  climate change, biodiversity loss, conservation,  agricultural development, and achieving the sustainable  development agenda, all require an appreciation of the  past. The volume explore these interactions from the  origins of human species with a particular focus on the  last 500 years the Anthropocene. As trade, particularly of  ivory, maize, and munitions, expanded with the Asia, Europe  and the Americas this shaped many of the current issues in  East Africa's society, economy, and environment. These  trade links paved the way for the colonial era that started  at an atypical moment in East African environmental  history. The colonial impacts on society, ecosystems,  Protected Areas, biodiversity conservation, and the ensuing  legacy through the independent states of Kenya, Tanzania  and Uganda are explored. Given this rich, diverse, and  connected past, what the future will be like for East  African societies, ecosystems, and landscapes under climate  change, high population growth, and rapid development? Rob  Marchant is Professor of Tropical of Ecology at the  University of York, UK. Much of his research is focused on  East Africa, where over the past thirty years of working in  Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania he has developed close  collaborations with the numerous University, NGO, UN and  Governmental institutions that, alongside multiple  conversations with individuals, have profoundly influenced  and shaped the perspectives presented here. The interplay  between the climate, ecosystems, cultures, livelihoods, and  land uses are explore to document how the massive  challenges facing the region have been created, are being  addressed and future opportunities maximized.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88987-6},
      recid = {1441703},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}