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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785416803321

Autore

Kreike Emmanuel <1959->

Titolo

Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia the global consequences of local contradictions [[electronic resource] /] / by Emmanuel Kreike

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-95127-0

9786612951275

90-474-4420-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Afrika-Studiecentrum series, , 1570-9310 ; ; v. 17

Disciplina

333.75096881

Soggetti

Deforestation - Namibia

Reforestation - Namibia

Environmental policy - Namibia

Global environmental change

Namibia Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / E. Kreike -- 1. Approaches To Environmental Change / E. Kreike -- 2. Tree Castles And Population Bombs / E. Kreike -- 3. Conquest Of Nature: Imperial Political Ecologies / E. Kreike -- 4. Fierce Species: Biological Imperialism / E. Kreike -- 5. Guns, Hoes And Steel: Techno-Environmental Determinism / E. Kreike -- 6. Naturalizing Cattle Culture: Colonialism As A Deglobalizing And Decommodifying Force / E. Kreike -- 7. The Palenque Paradox: Beyond Nature-To-Culture / E. Kreike -- 8. The Ovambo Paradox And Environmental Pluralism / E. Kreike -- Bibliography / E. Kreike -- Index / E. Kreike.

Sommario/riassunto

Descriptions of the late 1800's landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900's appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and



homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. Deforestation and Reforestation , however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical.