Sustainable Development in Mozambique

Mozambique in the late 1990s, emerging from years shaped more by destruction than development, set about planning for a sustainable future, and these essays record that effort from the inside. The contributors are government ministers, NGO workers and academics, and they take on the practical questions directly: how to govern and decentralise, how to create industrial projects, and how formal and customary law can work together in managing natural resources.

Further chapters turn to the coastal zone, water resources, environmental education and the impact of gold mining, with an eye on what Mozambique's choices mean for neighbouring South Africa. Brought together by Bernardo Ferraz and Barry Munslow, it is a valuable record for students and practitioners of African development and environmental policy, written by people who were doing the work.