Editorial from ROAPE Volume 15 Number 42
African Environment

Drought, desertification, deforestation are the technical terms conservations use to describe Africa's environmental crisis. This issue moves beyond these simple critiques of simplistic arguments, documenting the need for a deeper understanding between the relation between environment and the modes of production: deterioration in urban housing and sanitation; rural pastoral and agricultural production - illustrating the central questions about the political economy of environment. Countries discussed are Tanzania, Nigeria, Senegal, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia.