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Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa pp 41–58Cite as

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National Resource Management Policies in Kenya

The Politics Within

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Environmental and development challenges for Kenya include ensuring an equitable and sustainable pattern of development to meet people’s needs and aspirations for better standards of living. There is also the challenge to develop sustainable industrial production while maintaining an environmentally sound resource base. However, while development planning has been accorded high priority throughout the history of Kenya, environmental planning has received far less emphasis. Efforts to develop environmental planning at a sectoral level have met with varying degrees of success. For instance, although Kenya has one of the most sophisticated soil conservation programmes in Africa, sedimentation is still a major threat to its dams and lakes. Kenya derives an enormous income from wildlife through tourist trade, yet some of the large mammals, notably the elephant and the rhinoceros, are threatened with extinction. While the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources would like wetlands preserved in order to maintain biodiversity, the Department of Land Reclamation would like the same wetlands reclaimed for agricultural expansion (Wamicha and Mwarjje 1997).

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  1. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

    M. A. Mohamed Salih (Senior Lecturer in Environment and Sustainable Development) (Senior Lecturer in Environment and Sustainable Development)

  2. Eco-Consult, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Shibru Tedla (General Manager) (General Manager)

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Wamicha, W.N., Mwanje, J.I. (1999). National Resource Management Policies in Kenya. In: Salih, M.A.M., Tedla, S. (eds) Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27693-6_3

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