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The social lives of forests : past, present, and future of woodland resurgence /
Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face-including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation-are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices / Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Christine Padoch; Part I. Conceptual Frameworks; Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions: History, Ideologies, Institutions, and the Matrix / Susanna B. Hecht; 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach; 3. Stories of Nature's Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South / Roderick P. Neumann; 4. Adam Smith in the Forest / Frederik Albritton Jonsson; 5. Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia / Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter Vandergeest; 6. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico / Joseph Masco; 7. Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence / Alan Grainger; 8. The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence / Susanna B. Hecht.
- 9. Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism / John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto; 10. Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica / Robin L. Chazdon, Braulio Vilchez Alvarado, Susan G. Letcher, Amanda Wendt, and U. Uzay Sezen; Part II. Historical Ecologies; Human- Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History / Kathleen D. Morrison; 11. Constructing Nature: Socio-Natural Histories of an Indian Forest / Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark T. Lycett; 12. Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak / Monica Janowski, Huw Barton, and Samantha Jones; 13. Residual Effects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic Period Maya Site in Belize / David L. Lentz and Brian Lane; 14. Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion in India / Mahesh Rangarajan; 15. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape / Clark L. Erickson; Part III. Market Dynamics; Market Dynamics and Regional Change / Nicholas K. Menzies.
- 16. The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the World of Teak / Raymond L. Bryant; 17. Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree / Judith Carney and Marlene Elias; 18. Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into Green Marketing Innovators / Nicholas K. Menzies; 19. The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern China / Jefferson Fox; 20. From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in Mountainous Northern Laos / Yayoi Fuijita Lagerqvist; Part IV. Institutions; Institutions: The Secret Lives of Forests / Susanna B. Hecht.