As Pastoralists Settle

ISBN: 9780306485947

出版社: Kluwer Academic Pub

出版年: 2005-2

页数: 290

定价: $ 168.37

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. This reference shows that although pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international development agencies and national governments, the social, economic and health consequences of sedentism are not inevitably beneficial.