This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustainability in the context of the Kalahari environment of southern Africa, a region subject to marked spatial and temporal natural variability Each chapter is written by an active Kalahari researcher ожлдн and addresses, from an environmental or a social perspective, the implications of different policies for rural livelihoods and coping strategies.  Можно лиISBN 0198234198.