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Misreading the African Landscape Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

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ISBN-10: 0521564999

ISBN-13: 9780521564991

Edition: 1996

Authors: James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Clapham

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Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this unique study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, forcing a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines.
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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

David Anderson is Director of the African Studies Centre and Professor of African Politics, St Cross College, Oxford University.Nic Cheeseman is Lecturer in African Politics, Jesus College, Oxford University.

Introduction
Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science
Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change
Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history
Ecology and society in a Kuranko village
Ecology and society in a Kissi village
Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions
Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography
Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy
Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss
Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history