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

• Autore: Kreike Emmanuel <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.75096881
• Soggetto topico: Deforestation - Namibia; Reforestation - Namibia; Environmental policy - Namibia; Global environmental change
• Soggetto geografico: Namibia Environmental conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia the global consequences of local contradictions
• ISBN: 1-282-95127-0; 9786612951275; 90-474-4420-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459738003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; ; v. 17.