Environmental Education, Ethics & Action in Southern Africa

Written by environmental practitioners from across Southern Africa, this publication explores environmental challenges in a diversity of African contexts. These contexts include the following examples:

1. Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, taking up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts;
   
2. Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with non-governmental organisations trying to produce sustainably for the household and the international market; and
   
3. Government-civil society partnerships in South Africa, where the political transformation of the education system introduced a focus on environment and human rights in the national school curriculum.
   

Other contributions from South Africa, Angola, Lesotho, Zambia, and Zimbabwe aim to discuss more contexts of environmental practice including: industry reporting, environmental management, research, philosophy, the media, conservation, and the seeking out of indigenous knowledge.

Produced by the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa in Partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) with funding from the MacArthur Foundation for Peace and Justice, this collection of papers aims to provide both non-specialists and scholars with the following:

• case studies and reviews of progress since the 1992 Earth Summit;
• a window on the scope of responses to environmental issues in Africa;
• insight into contextual realities in Southern Africa and beyond;
• illumination of the complex challenges - practical, political, epistemological - facing social transformation; and
• application of social theory that reveals the need for re-thinking assumptions about the advancement and horizons of this change called, for the time being, “sustainable development."