03753nam 2200685 a 450 991078541680332120200520144314.01-282-95127-0978661295127590-474-4420-5(CKB)2670000000066370(EBL)635048(OCoLC)695988875(SSID)ssj0000435326(PQKBManifestationID)11307968(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435326(PQKBWorkID)10421252(PQKB)10448522(MiAaPQ)EBC635048(OCoLC)435879505(OCoLC)499583207(nllekb)BRILL9789047444206(Au-PeEL)EBL635048(CaPaEBR)ebr10439201(CaONFJC)MIL295127(PPN)170756122(EXLCZ)99267000000006637020090923d2010 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtccrDeforestation and reforestation in Namibia the global consequences of local contradictions[electronic resource] /by Emmanuel KreikeLeiden ;Boston Brill20101 online resource (244 p.)Afrika-Studiecentrum series,1570-9310 ;v. 17Description based upon print version of record.90-04-17991-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;v. 17.DeforestationNamibiaReforestationNamibiaEnvironmental policyNamibiaGlobal environmental changeNamibiaEnvironmental conditionsDeforestationReforestationEnvironmental policyGlobal environmental change.333.75096881Kreike Emmanuel1959-1515077MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785416803321Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia the global consequences of local contradictions3750611UNINA