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Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic
James Fairhead and Melissa Leach
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Frontmatter
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List of plates (page x)
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List of figures (page xi)
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List of tables (page xiii)
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Note on authorship and research collaboration (page xiv)
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Acknowledgements (page xvi)
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Linguistic conventions (page xviii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science (page 24)
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2 Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change (page 55)
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3 Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history (page 86)
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4 Ecology and society in a Kuranko village (page 115)
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5 Ecology and society in a Kissi village (page 149)
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6 Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions (page 176)
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7 Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography (page 210)
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8 Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy (page 237)
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9 Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss (page 261)
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10 Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history (page 279)
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Appendix I Glossary of plant names (page 296)
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Appendix II Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions (page 310)
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Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions (page 310)
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Notes (page 314)
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List of references (page 327)
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Index (page 348)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AJIAI | 71.1 (2001): 192-193 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9720%282001%2971%3A1%3C191%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M |
AAAG | 88.1 (March 1998): 151-152 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-5608%28199803%2988%3A1%3C151%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z |
JRAI | 4.2 (June 1998): 390-391 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1359-0987%28199806%294%3A2%3C390%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N |
JAH | 39.1 (1998): 148-150 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281998%2939%3A1%3C148%3ARLH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |
ECO | 78.6 (Sept. 1997): 1936 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0012-9658%28199709%2978%3A6%3C1936%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 |
IJAHS | 30.3 (1997): 614-616 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281997%2930%3A3%3C614%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |
AANTH | 100.2 (June 1998): 578-579 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199806%292%3A100%3A2%3C578%3AMTALSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 |
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Published: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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