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- Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk – Grassroots Voices in Africa Under COVID-19Hanai, Muchetu, Kinyua, and Mine eds.The results of the research project “Exploration of Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk - Collecting grassroots voices in Africa under COVID-19,” led by Project Assistant Professor Hanai, have been compiled into a new book and published by Springer.
This book presents the results of research investigating how people in seven African countries (Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, the DRCongo, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa) perceive the risks of COVID-19 and how they have overcome the effects of not only the pandemic but also the government's infection control measures.
please visit Springer Website. - Naosuke MukoyamaEuropean colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonization and decolonization processes have had a profound impact on the formation of the majority of sovereign states that exist today. But how exactly have natural resources influenced the creation of formerly colonized states? And would the world map of sovereign states look significantly different if not for these resources? These questions are at the heart of Fueling Sovereignty, which focuses primarily on oil as the most significant natural resource of the modern era. Naosuke Mukoyama provides a compelling analysis of how colonial oil politics contributed to the creation of some of the world's most “unlikely” states. Drawing on extensive archival sources on Brunei, Qatar and Bahrain, he sheds light on how some small colonial entities achieved independence despite their inclusion in a merger project promoted by the metropole and regional powers.
please visit Cambridge University Press Website. - Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos, Stylianos Zavos, Yahya Gamal, Yin LongAssoc. Prof. Alexandros Gasparatos co-edited a book that explores how different types of urban infrastructures, including for transportation, sanitation and communication, are interconnected. The edited book focuses mainly on experience from the global South and critically discusses what are the implications of these interconnections for urban sustainability, as well as the challenges and approaches for enhancing urban infrastructure sustainability in a socially equitable manner.
please visit Springer Nature Website. - Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa IIAlexandros Gasparatos, Merle Naidoo, Abubakari Ahmed, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko TakeuchiAssoc. Prof. Alexandros Gasparatos and Prof. Kensuke Fukushi co-edited two volumes outlining some of the main sustainability challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa. The two volumes published by Springer Nature focused on a very diverse set of sustainability challenges, including among others food security, poverty, ecosystem degradation, and lack of access to modern energy and infrastructure across the continent. For more information, please visit Springer Nature Website.
- Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa IAlexandros Gasparatos, Abubakari Ahmed, Merle Naidoo, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko TakeuchiAssoc. Prof. Alexandros Gasparatos and Prof. Kensuke Fukushi co-edited two volumes outlining some of the main sustainability challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa. The two volumes published by Springer Nature focused on a very diverse set of sustainability challenges, including among others food security, poverty, ecosystem degradation, and lack of access to modern energy and infrastructure across the continent. For more information, please visit Springer Nature Website.
- Political Ecology of Industrial CropsAbubakari Ahmed, Alexandros GasparatosAssoc. Prof. Alexandros Gasparatos co-edited a book on the political ecology of industrial crops. The edited volume contained a wealth of studies from developing countries of Africa, Asia and the Americas to unravel how industrial crops such as cotton, oil palm, soybeans, and sugarcane catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation. For more information, please visit Earthscan/Routledge, London Website.