Editorials
Africa’s environmental crisis: challenging the orthodoxies
Ray Bush
Original Articles
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria?
Reginald Cline‐Cole
Governance & local environmental management in Africa
Philip Woodhouse
The government must not dictate’: rural‐urban migrants’ perceptions of Zimbabwe’s land resettlement programme
Relief & rehabilitation in complex emergencies
Phil O’Keefe & John Kirkby
Debate
Desertification: the uneasy interface between science, people & environmental issues in Africa
David Thomas
Briefings
Reconstructing the Congo
Carole J.L. Collins
Miscellany
Mohamed Kadamy under arrest
David Styan
Book Reviews
Book review
Claire Oxby & Phil Grantham
Miscellany
Books received