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Environmental infrastructure in African history : examining the myth of natural resource management in Namibia /
"Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 The Ends of Nature and Culture; The Myth of Cultures Environmental Domination and the End of Nature; The Myth of the Natural; Post-Domestication Environments; Environmental Infrastructure and Environing; Environing in North-Central Namibia; 2 Architects of Nature; Wilderness Gardens; Fruit Trees and People; The Fruit Tree Frontier; Farms and Fields as Tree Nurseries; Maintaining Select Trees in Fields; Conclusion; 3 Dark Earths; Environmental Infrastructure and Dark Earth Spaces; Huts and Fences as Environmental Infrastructure.
- Making Dark EarthDark Earth and Raised Fields: Drainage and Irrigation; Dark Earths: Environmental Infrastructure and Soil History; 4 Water and Woodland Harvesting; Water Environmental Infrastructure; Wells and Water Holes; Preserving and Rationing Water; Woodland Coppice, Clones, and Environmental Infrastructure; Woodland Harvesting; Conclusion; 5 Browsing and Burning Regimes; Livestock and Browse; Cultivating the Bush with Goats; Cultivating with Fire; Conclusion; 6 Valuing Environmental Infrastructure and the Myth of Natural Resource Management; Paying for Environmental Infrastructure.
- Valuing and Owning TreesValuing and Owning Water; The Myth of Natural Resources Management; Conclusion; 7 Science and the Failure to Conquer Nature; Colonial Science and Environmental Planning; Colonial Artifice and Environmental Infrastructure; Colonial Water Technology and Environmental Change; Colonial Science and Plantation Forestry; Conclusion; Conclusion; Processes of Environing; Operationalizing Environing; Index.