Melissa Leach, James Fairhead

Misreading the African Landscape

Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic
Herausgeber: Anderson, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521564991
• ISBN-10: 0521564999
• Artikelnr.: 21447939

Inhaltsangabe

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.