Social clubs, resource management and rural development in Nigeria : lessons from AnambraState
Aide au développement ; Anambra ; Collectivité locale ; Développement rural ; Economie rurale ; Gestion des ressources ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Nigéria ; Région ; Rôle de l'Etat
Le problème du développement rural au Nigéria n'est pas forcément une affaire de ressources, mais plutôt une question de bonne gestion des ressources disponibles. Vu sous cet angle, le développement rural de la région d'Anambra et le rôle primordial
The Agalu-Nanka gully complex is located in AnambraState, Nigeria. Earlier studies attributed the genesis and growth of gullies to human activities and geomorphological processes. This study shows that the causes of the gully genesis and growth
Anambra ; Cross River ; Espace rural ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Imo ; Nigéria ; Peuplement ; Peuplement rural ; Pression démographique ; Rivers State ; Structure agraire
Le système de peuplement du sud-est Nigeria (Anambra, Imo, Cross River et Rivers State) défie les théories et les prévisions. Le peuplement est plus souvent contrôlé par les valeurs culturelles spécifiques. La notion de remplissage permet
Agricultural transformation in developing countries depends on the small farmer: widescale mechanization would be practically impossible, and innovations are difficult to introduce. A survey based on 36 villages in Anambrastate focuses
Nation-states, quasi-states, and collapsed-states in contemporary Africa
The state idea
Africa ; Colonization ; Conflict ; Ethnic community ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; State
The successor states to the colonial empires in Africa exhibit the same strains as the fragile successors to the European empires earlier in the century. The survival of these quasi-states has been dependent upon the support of the international
community. Anti-colonialism offers little support for states in a post-colonial, post Cold-War era. In some cases the result has been disintegration and the emergence of the collapsed state.
Census counts and apportionment : the politics of representation in the United States... continued
Policy ; Population census ; State ; United States of America
Census counts are used in the United States as the basis for a derived apportionment count, which is employed by the president to allocate seats in the House of Representatives across the 50 States. This practice has been challenged in the courts
, most recently by the State of Utah, which claimed that it was denied a fourth seat in the House for the period 2002-12 as a consequence.
Local control and financing of education: a perspective from the American state judiciary
Cultural studies ; Decision ; Education ; Finance ; Local administration ; School system ; State control ; Teaching ; United States
Local control of education in the United States today is more myth than reality. The American judiciary continues to justify its decisions concerning educational governance on the grounds of local control. Most states fund education through
a combuination of local, state and Federal taxes. The A. analyzes the state court decisions involving local control in school financing, with the intent of developing a more comprehensive interpretation of how local control arguments are used as justification
An assessment of the effects of reorganization of the states of the Federation. The A. asks wether a central federal government can command the loyalty of the peripherical states particularly if the states are totally dependent on the centre
Small places and big states : changing state relations in a new global environment
This article explores changes in the interaction between the endogenous and exogenous realms of the State in the context of a new global environment. Consideration is given to State actions and territorial associations most evident in the post-1945
The management and autonomy of the local state: the role of the judicary in the United States in Special issue on state, the law and the spatial sciences.
South Africa: the case of a failed state partition
Bantustan ; Conflict ; Ethnic group ; Language ; Multi-ethnic state ; Nation ; Political geography ; Segregation ; South Africa ; State
In South Africa the White minority sought to retain political power in the face of majority African demands for equality, by means of state partition. The government attempted to create new states for linguistically defined groups within the African
population, without resolving the problems involved in creating new nations or drawing state boundaries. The lack of legitimacy and the degree of coertion applied in the policy's enforcement ensured failure and the re-establishment of the unitary state.