Contents: Preface; Glossary of Hausa words; Introduction; Sustainability, land degradation and peri-urban expansion; Historical background to farming in the Kano close-settled zone; Land, soil and sustainable livelihoods; Urban pressure and woodland degradation: perceptions of tree cover change in the Kano close-settled zone; Water quality, urban waste and sustainability; Sustainability challenged? Seeing beyond Kano's 'political-ecological footprint'; Bibliography; Index.

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Dr Roy Maconachi is at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK.

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'This book offers a fluent and stimulating contribution to ongoing debates around resource management in politicized peri-urban environments. It will be of considerable interest to a wide readership in development studies, environmental management, geography and related disciplines.' Gina Porter, University of Durham, UK 'This book is well informed, thoroughly researched and well written.' International Planning Studies

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