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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

Fairhead, James, 1962- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Leach, Melissa, 1965- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996

1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-1-139-16402-3 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-56353-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-56499-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 859645006     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781139164023

GF746.2

304.2/096652     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Savanna ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region) ; Environmental policy -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region) ; Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) -- Environmental conditions ; Human ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region) ; Forest ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region) ; Landscape assessment -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)

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) ; Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) ; Environmental conditions

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