LEADER 04492nam 22007332 450 001 996247968003316 005 20221108100053.0 010 $a0-511-08971-6 010 $a1-139-16402-3 024 7 $a2027/heb02590 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396455 035 $a(dli)HEB02590 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084526 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084526 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165246 035 $a(PQKB)10077505 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139164023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3006937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3006937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10944326 035 $a(OCoLC)935277772 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000004916809 035 $a(PPN)261360639 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396455 100 $a20141103d1996|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMisreading the African landscape $esociety and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic /$fJames Fairhead and Melissa Leach with the research collaboration of Dominique Millimouno and Marie Kamano$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1996. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aAfrican studies series ;$v90 225 0$aAfrican studies series ;$v90 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-56499-9 311 $a0-521-56353-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-347) and index. 327 $aCover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Note on authorship and research collaboration -- Acknowledgements -- Linguistic conventions -- 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 -- Glossary of plant names -- Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions -- Notes -- List of references -- Index -- Titles in the series -- Plate section. 330 $aIslands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence, and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this fascinating study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, encouraging a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines. 410 0$aAfrican studies series ;$v90. 606 $aHuman ecology$zGuinea$zKissidougou (Region) 606 $aLandscape assessment$zGuinea$zKissidougou (Region) 606 $aForest ecology$zGuinea$zKissidougou (Region) 606 $aSavanna ecology$zGuinea$zKissidougou (Region) 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zGuinea$zKissidougou (Region) 607 $aKissidougou (Guinea : Region)$xEnvironmental conditions 615 0$aHuman ecology 615 0$aLandscape assessment 615 0$aForest ecology 615 0$aSavanna ecology 615 0$aEnvironmental policy 676 $a304.2/096652 700 $aFairhead$b James$f1962-$0288093 702 $aLeach$b Melissa 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247968003316 996 $aMisreading the African landscape$92343199 997 $aUNISA