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Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic

Year: 1997

Type: book-review

Abstract: Introduction 1. Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science 2. Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change 3. Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history 4. Ecology and society in a Kuranko village 5. Ecology and society in a Kissi village 6. Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions 7. Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography 8. Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy 9. Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss 10. Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history.

Source: Choice Reviews Online

DOI: 10.5860/choice.34-6345

Authors: James Fairhead (4460974), Melissa Leach (84854)

Institutions: University of London, University of Sussex

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1581030002

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