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

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

James Fairhead and Melissa Leach 1996 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780521564991 (paper)
  • 9780521563536 (hardcover)
  • 9780511089718 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of plates (page x)
  • List of figures (page xi)
  • List of tables (page xiii)
  • Note on authorship and research collaboration (page xiv)
  • Acknowledgements (page xvi)
  • Linguistic conventions (page xviii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science (page 24)
  • 2 Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change (page 55)
  • 3 Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history (page 86)
  • 4 Ecology and society in a Kuranko village (page 115)
  • 5 Ecology and society in a Kissi village (page 149)
  • 6 Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions (page 176)
  • 7 Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography (page 210)
  • 8 Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy (page 237)
  • 9 Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss (page 261)
  • 10 Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history (page 279)
  • Appendix I Glossary of plant names (page 296)
  • Appendix II Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions (page 310)
  • Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions (page 310)
  • Notes (page 314)
  • List of references (page 327)
  • Index (page 348)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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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