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Things Fall Apart? : The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria /
Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria's Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa, large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ;
18 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Ecology and Politics in the Benin Kingdom
- 2. Separating Farm and Forest: Reservation and Dereservation
- 3. Managing the Forests: Logging and Regeneration
- 4. Reinventing Farm and Forest: The Changing Forms of Taungya Farming
- 5. Okomu National Park: A Postscript on Conservation
- Appendix. Administrative History of Edo State
- Bibliography
- Index