Pauline von Hellermann

Things Fall Apart?

The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria's Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa, large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent failures in forest management...

Produktdetails

• Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780857459893
• ISBN-10: 0857459899
• Artikelnr.: 38467607

Autorenporträt

Pauline von Hellermann is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has conducted research on landscapes and politics in Nigeria and Tanzania and is editor of Multisited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods (with Simon Coleman, Routledge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ecology and Politics in the Benin Kingdom
Chapter 2. Separating Farm and Forest: Reservation and Dereservation
Chapter 3. Managing the Forests: Logging and Regeneration
Chapter 4. Reinventing Farm and Forest: The Changing Forms of Taungya
Farming
Chapter 5. Okomu National Park: A Postscript on Conservation
Appendix: Administrative History of Edo State
Bibliography