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Misreading the African Landscape
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Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521564991
Veröffentl:
2011
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.03.2011
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Melissa Leach
Gewicht:
622 g
Format:
229x152x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Introduction; 1. Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science; 2. Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change; 3. Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history; 4. Ecology and society in a Kuranko village; 5. Ecology and society in a Kissi village; 6. Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions; 7. Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography; 8. Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy; 9. Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss; 10. Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history.