Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiene en Milieu, 1999-2001 ...

tuurlijke omgeving. De voorlopige
conclusies zijn dat er geen eenduidig
patroon is van milieuverstoring,
maar dat er ook herstel plaats vindt,
zowel langs een natuurlijke weg
alsook door mensenhanden. Deze
verzameling van onderzoeksverslagen
maakt nieuwsgierig naar de
toekomstige ontwikkelingen van
de discipline en de samenwerking
tussen disciplines. Een vraag die
zich laat stellen is bijvoorbeeld de
uitwerking van levensstijlen in de
Westerse wereld (veranderende
mode, veranderende voeding, veranderende
mobiliteit) op de vraag
en vervolgens op de flora en fauna
en het landschap in Nusantara. Modegeschiedenis
bijvoorbeeld is nog
maar zelden bedreven door een milieuhistorische
bril, terwijl de door
mode gestuwde vraag zeker diepe
sporen heeft achtergelaten (zo was
het lot van de paradijsvogels - die
massaal gedood werden om westerse
mode te dienen - aanleiding tot de
eerste internationale bundeling van
krachten voor de vogelbescherming.
De Sahel
25 jaar na de grote droogte
conferentie 13 mei 1998
The Sahel - 25 years after the great
drought. Assessing Progress - Setting
a New Agenda. A Conference
of the Royal Geographical Society
(with the Institute of British Geographers)
Wednesday 13th May
1998 It is time to reassess the nature
and direction of research into
the African Sahels problems. This
region is frequently viewed as a microcosm
for the ‘African crisis’, and
indeed the Sahel was devastated by
the major droughts and resultant
food shortages of the 1970’s. Since
that time, the international research
and donor community has redoubled
its efforts to understand and
provide solutions to human and
environmental disasters and persistent
poverty, and to comprehend the
Sahel’s dynamic - and successful -
economic and social adaptations.
Two sets of questions arise: Firstly,
in retrospect, have the most important
issues been addressed by the
research and policy community
Have the links between research
and practice been too weak in the
past
Secondly, in prospect, will new
research methods and paradigms
be more effective Is it helpful to
contest established views on development
trajectories, environmental
change, international aid transfers,
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and political models Should more
attention be paid to institutions
and politics, such as for land tenure,
decentralisation, macro-policies,
and community participation
This meeting brings together prominent
European and African experts
from different research traditions to
reconsider Sahelian research priorities.
Chair: Dr. Camilla Toulmin, Drylands
Programme, International Institute
for Environment and Development,
London and Edinburgh.
Is the Sahel prepared to meet the
challenges of the 21st Century
Dr Gaoussou Traore: lnstitut du
Sahel, Bamako, Mali
The years of drought, Dr Mike
Hulme, Climatic Research Unit,
School of Environmental Science,
University of East Anglia
Social change and adaptation, Prof.
Claude Raynaut, directeur de recherche,
CNRS (Equipe Sociétés,
santé, développement). Université
de Bordeaux II. France
Resource Limitations in Sahelian
Agriculture. Dr. Van Keulen or
Dr. Groot. AB-DLO. Wageningen
Agricultural University, The
Netherlands
Sahelian farmers and adaptation
(Prof.) Mike Mortimore, consultant
and research fellow, Cambridge
University
Sahelian pastoral systems, Dr. Brigite
Thebaud. private consultant.
Copenhagen. Denmark
The transition to a full market
economy; regional trends Jean-
Marie Cour. Club du Sahel.
OECD. Paris
The papers are destined for publication.
Royal Geographical Society.
Kensington Gore. London SW7
2AR. UK
A one-day conference convened by
Prof. Andrew Warren (Department
of Geography, UCL
awarren@geog.ucl.ac.uk)
and Simon Batterbury (Department
of Geography & Earth Sciences,
Brunei University, Department of
Geography. University of Colorado.
USA) Campus Box 260, University
of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-
0260 USA
tel. 303492 5388 fax. 303492 7501
email batterbu@spot.colorado.edu
Info: Alison Glazebrook
a.glazebrook@rgs.org or see the web
site (The web site has the registration
form) http://www.Colorado.
edu/geography/projects/rgs98.html
African environments
past and present
Oxford 5-8 Juli 1999
Convenors: William Beinart and
Richard Grove The Journal of
Southern African Studies is organising
a conference on African environments,
past and present, 5-8 July
1999 in Oxford. The geographic
focus is nor restricted to southern
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