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020 _a9781139164023 (ebook)
020 _z9780521563536 (hardback)
020 _z9780521564991 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aGF746.2
_b.F35 1996
082 0 0 _a304.2/096652
_220
100 1 _aFairhead, James,
_d1962-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMisreading the African landscape :
_bsociety and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic /
_cJames Fairhead and Melissa Leach with the research collaboration of Dominique Millimouno and Marie Kamano.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1996.
300 _a1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAfrican studies ;
_v90
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _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.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zGuinea
_zKissidougou (Region)
650 0 _aLandscape assessment
_zGuinea
_zKissidougou (Region)
650 0 _aForest ecology
_zGuinea
_zKissidougou (Region)
650 0 _aSavanna ecology
_zGuinea
_zKissidougou (Region)
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy
_zGuinea
_zKissidougou (Region)
651 0 _aKissidougou (Guinea : Region)
_xEnvironmental conditions.
700 1 _aLeach, Melissa,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521563536
830 0 _aAfrican studies series ;
_v90.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164023
999 _c517091
_d517089