Misreading the African Landscape

Klappentext An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land! while scientists believe they damage it. Zusammenfassung African forest landscapes are often considered as degraded. However! this fascinating 1996 study reveals how inhabitants have enriched their land when scientists believe they have damaged it. It provides a framework for ecological anthropology! and a challenge to old assumptions about the African landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: James Fairhead, James (University of London) Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Melissa (University of Sussex) Leach
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.1996
• EAN: 9780521564991
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56499-1
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: African Studies; African Studies Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)