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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 fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hellermann, Pauline von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how "things fall apart" in Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of m.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1299863094
9781299863095
9780857459909
0857459902