TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fairhead,James
AU  - Leach,Melissa
TI  - Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic 
T2  - African studies
SN  - 9781139164023 (ebook)
AV  - GF746.2 .F35 1996
U1  - 304.2/096652 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Guinea
KW  - Kissidougou (Region)
KW  - Landscape assessment
KW  - Forest ecology
KW  - Savanna ecology
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Kissidougou (Guinea : Region)
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
ER  -