Misreading the African landscape : society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic / / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach with the research collaboration of Dominique Millimouno and Marie Kamano [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Fairhead James <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 304.2/096652
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region); Landscape assessment - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region); Forest ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region); Savanna ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region); Environmental policy - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region)
• Soggetto geografico: Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) Environmental conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): LeachMelissa
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-347) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Islands 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Misreading the African landscape
• ISBN: 0-511-08971-6; 1-139-16402-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247968003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: African studies series ; ; 90.