ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how traditional communities have re-established indigenous burning regimes after many years of punitive fire suppression regulations in Mali. It suggests that the significance of monitoring environmental determinants at both the local and landscape level. The book outlines the advantages of zero tillage farming at the landscape scale, including groundwater recharge, benefits relatively unrecognised by society as a whole and policy-makers in particular. It analyses the ‘enclosure’ of the savanna landscape in Tanzania and its subsequent effects on nomadic pastoralists. The book describes vicious cut backs in Kenya’s government departments as a result of World Bank instructions. It illustrates the potential conflicts that developing conceptual models may invite on the researcher as stakeholders contest some of the assumptions. The conceptual model should then form the basis of a series of actions which have the support of the majority of stakeholders.
