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Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia : the global consequences of local contradictions /
Descriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area's late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Photos; 1 . Approaches to environmental change; 2 . Tree castles and population bombs; 3. Conquest of Nature: Imperial political ecologies; 4. Fierce species: Biological imperialism; 5. Guns, hoes and steel: Techno-environmental determinism; 6. Naturalizing cattle culture: Colonialism as a deglobalizing and decommodifying force; 7. The Palenque paradox: Beyond Nature-to-Culture; 8. The Ovambo paradox and environmental pluralism; Bibliography; Index.