Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa...

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Beteilige Person: Fairhead, James 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:African studies 90
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
Zusammenfassung:Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence, and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this fascinating study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, encouraging a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Umfang:1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages)
ISBN:9781139164023
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139164023